11.   Over time they seem to have developed ground rules for ensuring their safety, and neither has ever had a regrettable sexual liaison stemming from too much booze.

12.   San Jose State, which has beaten Stanford, seems over its head here.

13.   The defeated presidential candidate, who lost every primary and caucus to Gore, seemed over the last four months to be panting for the Sour Grapes Cup.

14.   The election seemed over, finally.

15.   The game seemed over moments earlier.

16.   The official election night celebration at the headquarters for Rep. Richard Zimmer, the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, seemed over even before it started.

17.   The quality of law enforcement seems over the decades to be as accurate a barometer of racial turmoil as any.

18.   The same day the head of the Central Bank, while agreeing that the depression finally seemed over, declined to describe the economy as growing.

19.   Their careers seemed over, but the Yankees, for years a team with an odd soft-spot for rehabilitating drug offenders.

20.   There was relief, too, when the incessant rebellions of the early years seemed over.