11.   Critics and rent-control advocates say real-estate interests seem to be driving the secession movement.

12.   For the moment, these mutual interests may not seem impressive to Washington.

13.   His interest in modeling seemed to stem from a wish to live in New York.

14.   His interest in Armani seemed authentic.

15.   Interest seems to have died down, possibly because the excessive salt intake could have undesirable effects.

16.   The interests of retirees seems to be shifting, he observed, from pure recreation to productive activities.

17.   The greater interest here seems to be in showing how ordinary people react to an emotional upheaval that hits them smack out of left field.

18.   The Guangdong province government, whose interests have sometimes seemed indistinguishable from those of Guangdong International, proposed a detailed bailout plan to Beijing authorities last month.

19.   This interest in Chippendale seems bizarre, given the mismatched seats, rumpled daybed and stools rejected from past installations that furnish her sitting room.

20.   Thus, Russian imperial interest seems directed more southward than westward, partly by virtue of Clinton diplomacy.