11.   Before the war, there was a lot of fire between the two teams, and the matches seemed much more exciting.

12.   But talks broke down and, in the end, the match seemed destined to be an uneventful, two-day non-event.

13.   For the first few games, the match seemed subdued, as if it were anticlimactic to her actual return.

14.   The match seemed like a mere formality.

15.   There was a juncture, though, when the match seemed to be slipping away.

16.   When a match seems likely, officials make elaborate ID checks to ensure that the inquiring adult really is related to the child.

17.   When Sanchez Vicario rolled through the second set, the match seemed to turn on the seventh game of the third set.

18.   Having been blasted off the court in the first set, Agassi repeatedly rallied as the match seemed to be slipping away from him.

19.   Having been blasted off the court in the first set, Agassi rallied repeatedly as the match seemed to be slipping away from him.

20.   Despite the open, expansive play of both sides, the match seemed destined to be settled by the boot.