31.   In ideal situations, they are to identify themselves as police officers before they shoot.

32.   It seemed an ideal situation for a budding beer-maker with big ambitions.

33.   It could be an ideal situation for Murphy, since Michael Jordan owns the sports headlines in Washington these days.

34.   It may well be that the ideal situation for the American writer is that of a spinster.

35.   It was an ideal situation for the Bruins to press fatigued Fairfield into submission.

36.   It is an ideal situation for a second-round pick.

37.   Johnson said playing near his family would have been the ideal situation.

38.   Musical goaltenders are seldom the ideal situation.

39.   Neither McDonald was thrust into an ideal situation.

40.   Oates said the ideal situation would be for Curtis to play seven innings, then have McDonald come in for the final two.