21.   The election comes, however, as some cracks are beginning to show.

22.   The spot where the crack began supports the tail rotor.

23.   With employees facing such intimidating law-enforcement tactics, cracks began to emerge in the conspiracy to lie to investigators.

24.   You wonder how long before the cracks begin to show.

25.   After three weeks of being a maid, the cracks began to show.

26.   But cracks began appearing last week in their alliance, with the Communists suggesting they were being relegated to a back seat.

27.   But the cracks were beginning to show as key players got older and Richardson himself felt the pressure.

28.   Heavy mortar fire shattered the calm around Brazzaville airport Sunday morning as further cracks began to appear in a fragile cease-fire between the president and his chief rival.

29.   Ominously, similar cracks are beginning to appear in the Clinton-era military.

30.   The bottom line is that cracks have begun to appear even before the alliances are formalised and seat-sharing is finalised.