21.   If the initial results seem ambiguous, it may be because there has never been the yearning for distinctness from the English that there has been in Scotland.

22.   If anything, the midterm election results seemed only to accentuate the strain between Republican congressional leaders and the governors.

23.   Mathematical results seem to have no obvious cultural bias.

24.   Mordos said the survey results seemed to mirror the cycle of mourning and grief.

25.   Millions of dollars were spent on developing James Bond-type gadgets, though sometimes the results seemed more in keeping with the bumbling Maxwell Smart.

26.   No result seemed official until the post-event hearing was completed.

27.   Nevertheless, last fall the other networks tried to do just that, and the result seems to have been a yearlong alienation of older and younger viewers.

28.   On their face, the results seemed to be a repudiation of negative advertising.

29.   Only months ago, such a result would have seemed preposterous.

30.   Recent results seem to point in that direction.