11.   Burke, who took over from Palmer, fit the pattern.

12.   But it fits a pattern emerging within Catholicism.

13.   But officials said the case fits the pattern of classic Creutzfeld-Jakob disease, or CJD, which results in six to eight deaths a year in Massachusetts.

14.   But the four Vacanti brothers do not seem to fit that pattern.

15.   But some recent statistics indicated that the losses had moderated in this decade, and the Lutheran report seemed to fit the pattern.

16.   But this episode fits a pattern.

17.   Certainly the death of Michael L. Kennedy seems to fit that pattern.

18.   David Allen, who founded Allen Associates in the Boston suburb of Ayer, fits this pattern.

19.   David Becker, a Manhattan lawyer, fits the pattern of the taciturn male.

20.   Do you know anyone who fits the patterns outlined above?