1.   As the Purcell crackled over the PA Kenneth Baker emerged looking remarkably composed for a man in the middle of a punishing whistle-stop tour of the North-East.

2.   But all sides will emerge looking good by the weekend.

3.   He hopes the theater will not emerge looking too new.

4.   He would emerge looking like one of the hordes of trick-or-treaters seen around the country late last month.

5.   Nor did the news media emerge looking good.

6.   One is the party of Chancellor Gerhard Schroder, the Social Democrats, who may yet emerge looking reasonably clean from the intensive scandal-searching now going on.

7.   When run through a processing machine, it emerges looking like mesh netting.

8.   Yet the United States, to which Mobutu probably owed more than he did to France, has emerged looking like a Kabila ally.

9.   After dinner, Annan, Greek Cypriot leader and President Glafcos Clerides and Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash emerged looking grim.

10.   Ambulances with flashing lights converged on the plane soon after it was secured, and passengers emerged looking drawn and tired.