1. On the face of it, their marriage seems an improbable alliance.

2. On the face of it, his suggestion makes sense.

3. On the face of it, this story seems unconvincing.

4. On the face of it, the document seemed genuine.

5. On the face of it, it seems like a great deal.

6. It looks, on the face of it,[sentencedict .com] like a minor change in the regulations.

7. On the face of it, he seems to be telling the truth though I suspect he's hiding something.

8. It is, on the face of it, difficult to see how the West could radically change its position.

9. On the face of it, it seems like a bargain, but I bet there are hidden costs.

10. What may, on the face of it, seem obvious often turns out to be far more complicated.

11. On the face of it, these fears are groundless.

12. This seems a contradiction on the face of it.

13. Innocuous enough on the face of it.

14. As I say, on the face of it obvious.

15. On the face of it, the omens are good.

16. On the face of it a most ingenious scheme.

17. On the face of it, this seems like a perfectly good idea -- we must wait and see if it turns out well.

18. Last Saturday night was not, on the face of it, a roaring success.

19. On the face of it the comparison is almost ludicrous, so great has been the progress in computer technology.

20. It is, on the face of it, a very considerable offer.

21. On the face of it, this criticism carries the day against any rule utilitarianism which is genuinely distinguishable from act utilitarianism.

22. On the face of it both movements shared a Marxist analysis.

23. On the face of it, his wife, Jean, had a very different formative experience.

24. On the face of it, two lines of defence seem to be open to him.

25. On the face of it they were an utter failure.

26. On the face of it, this plan of campaign did not seem very innovative.

27. All three candidates were acceptable on the face of it.

28. On the face of it, the absence of joint obligations of payment was inconsistent with the existence of a joint tenancy.

29. On the face of it these trivial little improvements, or plus points ahead of the norm look to be insignificant.

30. It looks, on the face of it, like a pretty minor change in the regulations.

1. On the face of it, their marriage seems an improbable alliance.

31. They were not, on the face of it, a likely match.

32. On the face of it, such activity would seem to be more expressive of right-wing rather than left-wing sentiments.

33. On the face of it, there was an enviable simplicity about Armstrong's own view.

34. On the face of it Labour has a real chance of overturning the Tory majority of 2,661.

35. On the face of it, it is hardly promising that the soft left has immediately split over the post of deputy.

36. On the face of it, this approach is consonant with the requirements of the Act.

37. On the face of it, he appeared to be an ideal candidate for the position.

38. On the face of it his life centred around business of one sort or another, his own and the council's.

39. A contractual obligation, such as an exchange rule gives rise on the face of it to strict liability.

40. On the face of it the problem seems minor.

41. On the face of it, It'seems quite reasonable.

42. This theory is senseless on the face of it.

43. On the face of it, this is odd.

44. On the face of it, dangers galore.

45. On the face of it, Vietnam's exit is good news.

46. On the face of it, life was a mixture of the quaint and the archaic.

47. What he quotes from Levi-Strauss would seem, on the face of it, to have exactly the same kinds of reservation and hesitation about the emergence or birth of language that Derrida himself has.

48. On the face of it, the evidence for these claims is strong.

49. On the face of it, this is a success story.

50. This is, on the face of it, a firm timetable.

51. On the face of it, the coercive model for interrogation seems like common sense: there is information that the interrogator wants to know and the subject holds but doesn't want to give up.

52. On the face of it, there is plenty of reason to worry.

53. So on the face of it, that makes price maximums appear draconian - particularly since market values in China are often far higher.

54. On the face of it , Mr Buffett's gambit looks both unwise and uncharacteristic.

55. On the face of it, networks are less important in more meritocratic America.

56. On the face of it, this was not a turbulent life.

57. Though their power is renewable and, on the face of it, carbon-free, there are lots of bad things about them, too.

58. On the face of it, the Spanish capital has a great deal in its favor.

59. On the face of it, all the anger directed at the Arsenal keeper was because, in typical fashion, he'd dropped an unconsidered remark about Kahn having a very young girlfriend.

60. On the face of it, the case had been concluded successfully.

61. On the face of it, his new role does not sound like the sort of thing that one might imagine LeBlanc - who played the dim-witted Joey Tribbiani in Friends - would instantly have been attracted to.

62. Such comments are, on the face of it, nothing new for Mr Karzai, who previously invited the Taliban leader, Mullah Omar, to talks in Kabul.

63. On the face of it that seems to make sense. But the figures don't add up.

64. On the face of it the plot is very simple.