1.   Some commentators have wondered aloud why this should have been so.

2.   And commentators Tuesday wondered whether his slim margin would mean it would be difficult for him to hold Canada together in the event of another separatist referendum in Quebec.

3.   Irish commentators wondered if the nation would ever recover from the election fiasco.

4.   It was important for the queen to speak from the heart, after so many commentators had wondered if she possessed one.

5.   Political commentators wondered aloud if Barak had engineered a deal with Sharon.

6.   Puzzled-looking TV commentators wonder how such a thing is possible.

7.   Some commentators wondered whether Chubais, too, might soon lose his own job.

8.   Such comments have made many commentators wonder whether Yeltsin is out-of-touch or simply lying.

9.   Television commentators were routinely wondering whether he could remain in office.

10.   The attack was so brutal that commentators wondered whether jurors would believe that a guy supposedly as nice as O.J. could have really carried it out.