1.   To anyone on the outside, our marriage seemed perfect.

2.   Marriage seems to be going out of fashion.

3.   On the face of it, their marriage seems an improbable alliance.

4.   Outwardly, their marriage seemed quite normal.

5.   Although I violated a direct order and planted a rather large garden, our marriage seems to have bumped through another year, saved by the weather.

6.   But some marriages seem strained.

7.   His marriage seemed to be falling apart.

8.   His marriage seems to have been a largely passionless affair, and Mann proved himself a willfully oblivious father with little time or sympathy for his children.

9.   It makes marriage seem like a business proposition rather than an emotional and legal union bound by mutual love and affection.

10.   Marriage itself seems to have a bearing.