1.   It was still misty but the sun was gathering strength and the mist had acquired a pearly hue promising better things.

2.   Deane looked good and happy to be there, and had enough chances to promise great things in the future.

3.   And Lanchester is a commanding writer, this accomplished first novel promising great things in the future.

4.   At the largest assembly ever of world leaders, they rattled through five-minute forgettable speeches and promised fine things they will soon forget.

5.   Bush quickly picked up that theme, saying that the Clinton-Gore administration had promised many things.

6.   But if this is what they do to people, I promise one thing.

7.   But it promises all things to all people.

8.   But there are very promising things, too.

9.   Clinton promised one thing, then did another.

10.   Glibly, it promises all things.