41.   At first this seems anomalous.

42.   I said that physics is the study of simple things, and this, too, may seem strange at first.

43.   Accordingly, it may at first sight seem advantageous to a landlord to grant such a tenancy.

44.   Tonight he certainly seemed at pains to play the perfect host.

45.   It might seem at first sight that this pace was unambiguously beneficial to demand and equally unambiguously detrimental to profitability.

46.   He quickly realised that, tactically, the situation at Verdun was not quite as desperate as it had seemed at first sight.

47.   Although Taiwan and China may seem at the brink of war, the two Chinese-speaking economies are linked through trading and investment.

48.   Although it seemed at first as if Fleury was instigating some basketball-style trash-talking, both men later confessed to an equal exchange of taunts.

49.   Although Sultan McCullough seems ahead at the tailback position, USC coach Paul Hackett said Friday he will probably name McCullough and Malaefou MacKenzie as co-starters.

50.   Although the principals of the buying group remained tightlipped about final deals of an agreement, Boisvert seemed at pains to temper worker hostility toward the Sunbeam chief.