11.   At times the event seemed like a religious pilgrimage.

12.   All week long, events seemed to be conspiring to deprive Michael Johnson of his full measure of Olympic glory.

13.   But a ban was not approved, and events seem to have proved the commission wrong.

14.   But for the first time, that faraway event seemed real to me.

15.   But in his more striking works, events seem definitely related to the passions we know here on earth, and Cunningham can be serene, terrifying or frolicsome.

16.   But San Francisco was the cradle of Critical Mass, and the event in turn seems to distill some of the most flamboyant facets of the place.

17.   But the event seemed to steel the opposition of some government officials.

18.   But the ugly events seemed to prompt more calls for violence, rather than calm, intensifying the battle of revenge.

19.   But, in Denver, many people say the events seem strangely coincidental.

20.   But, then, unexpected events generally seem to leave their cities doing so.