21.   Such a statement might seem grandiloquent, especially from a company that has struggled with an image as the slow hiker in the Baby Bell pack.

22.   That last statement seems incredible, but think about it.

23.   That statement may seem a non sequitur, especially here, where motive power is mainly ordinary American cars, pickups, even an occasional tractor.

24.   That statement seemed to make nonsense of years of previous British government assertions that mad cow disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, was nothing to worry about.

25.   That innocent statement seems light years away.

26.   The anonymity of online discussion, in contrast, tends to make even outlandish statements seem credible to impressionable young eavesdroppers.

27.   The Daily Mail statement seems to contradict them.

28.   The Hamas statement seemed to attract little attention from anyone other than the Palestinian officials and news agencies.

29.   The joint statement seemed to conflict with the sentiments voiced hours earlier by the Israelis.

30.   The Ray statement seemed to provide little ammunition for her opponents.