Example sentences of "[noun] at random " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Snyman at Random Century says that a third South African lawyer telephoned him offering the autobiography ( he also says that his company never signed a contract with Ayob , though they did try to work out a deal ) . |
| 2 | Non payment costs the taxpayer millions of pounds a year , so today roadside checkpoints were set up to stop drivers at random . |
| 3 | Similarly , if we take two speakers at random we will almost certainly find that one speaker typically speaks with lower pitch than the other ; the difference between the two speakers is not linguistically significant because their habitual pitch level is determined by their physical structure . |
| 4 | Masklin tried pictures at random and got several different sorts of fruit , a squeaky green vegetable thing , and a piece of meat that tasted rather like smoked salmon . |
| 5 | Light was where he found it : in my room I open Nairn in Darkness and Light at random : windows , lamps , doorways , the sky , night , fire . |
| 6 | It is not really a good idea to buy a few packets at random in the hope that these will be the type of thing you need . |
| 7 | These include opening books at random . |
| 8 | It is a bit difficult to tell what lies in store when one opens a book at random and finds a section on opening books at random . |
| 9 | He had taken a book from the shelves at random but , for the last ten minutes , had n't even bothered to turn the page . |
| 10 | Susan Bell , Seth 's editor at Random House , was tired of talking about him . |
| 11 | ANNE HAD GIVEN up the rational approach , and picked a passage at random . |
| 12 | He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station . |
| 13 | She takes an exit at random and pulls up at the side of the road to consult her A to Z , but there are no street names visible which would enable her to orient herself . |
| 14 | So we had chosen an exit at random , and I stepped over one of those high door-frames which are presumably intended to stop the sea water from sloshing into the saloon . |
| 15 | Sir , Your report on 26th March about the appointment of new sales directors at Random House and Orion stated that Random House had announced ‘ the appointment of Mike Broderick to the new position of group UK sales director … ( and ) By a happy symmetry , Orion has now been joined by Dallas Manderson , who has left his post as group trade sales director at Random House ’ . |
| 16 | Childhood cancers , including leukaemia , can strike a healthy child at random , regardless of race , social background or creed . |
| 17 | New posts for Callil , Coady at Random House |
| 18 | As we have seen , some genetic change may not take place at random , or events may occur more quickly than Darwin believed . |
| 19 | Compulsory drug tests also take place at random and competitors are supplied with copious literature about what medication is and is not acceptable . |
| 20 | Firms select workers at random from the pool of union and non-union workers irrespective of their union status . |
| 21 | Visiting local bookshops at random , I came across more and more books that had come from libraries . |
| 22 | He asked dealers at random to deliver the goods , and berated anyone who was obviously unprepared , particularly if he belonged to the streetwise contingent whose daily newspaper tended to be the Daily Mirror or The Sun . |
| 23 | We picked five textbooks at random , each textbook containing a chapter on shear force and bending moment . |
| 24 | Indeed , the advent of Protestantism gave rise to a number of new superstitious practices , such as the opening of the Bible at random in an attempt to secure divine guidance in the face of problems or dilemmas , a practice that was widespread even among Puritans . |
| 25 | Within each block , the four treatments are allocated to plots at random so that we might have : For this layout , the treatment comparisons within a block are less subject to unwanted external variation ( both suspected and unknown ) . |
| 26 | I pull out a handful at random … |
| 27 | Start with small sprigs of the foliage that will form the body of the arrangement and push them into the foam at random to make a fairly even shape , as seen from all sides . |
| 28 | Jason Epstein , the editorial director at Random House and a friend of Seth 's father , took an interest , helping Seth to pare the book down to a readable length , then publishing Homeboy . |
| 29 | Sir , Your report on 26th March about the appointment of new sales directors at Random House and Orion stated that Random House had announced ‘ the appointment of Mike Broderick to the new position of group UK sales director … ( and ) By a happy symmetry , Orion has now been joined by Dallas Manderson , who has left his post as group trade sales director at Random House ’ . |
| 30 | IT IS probable that , unless your particular county was involved , you will not be able to say which county won the Refuge Assurance League of 1988 or 1990 , to take two years at random . |