Example sentences of "[noun sg] at random " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Susan Bell , Seth 's editor at Random House , was tired of talking about him . |
| 3 | ANNE HAD GIVEN up the rational approach , and picked a passage at random . |
| 4 | He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Childhood cancers , including leukaemia , can strike a healthy child at random , regardless of race , social background or creed . |
| 8 | As we have seen , some genetic change may not take place at random , or events may occur more quickly than Darwin believed . |
| 9 | Compulsory drug tests also take place at random and competitors are supplied with copious literature about what medication is and is not acceptable . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I pull out a handful at random … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | You could , for instance , to select a name at random , call somebody a Kevin and be seen to be especially rude . |
| 16 | Her style and title at Random House — associate publisher and marketing director for the group 's literary imprints Cape , Chatto and Vintage — are intended to reflect a bridge between the publishing and marketing functions . |
| 17 | Another way of stating the information , since the area under the curve represents probability , is any item taken from the sample at random will have a 68.3 per cent probability of lying between -1 and +1 standard deviations of the mean and a 95.4 per cent probability of lying between -2 and +2 standard deviations of the mean . |
| 18 | Another way of stating the information , since the area under the curve represents probability , is any item taken from the sample at random will have a 68.3 per cent probability of lying between — 1 and + 1 standard deviations of the mean and a 95.4 per cent probability of lying between — 2 and +2 standard deviations of the mean . |
| 19 | A dead planet has atoms , molecules and larger lumps of matter , jostling and nestling against each other at random , according to the laws of physics . |
| 20 | Peter opened the diary at random . |
| 21 | We could simply choose the herd at random ( i.e. with probability of 1/3 that any given herd is selected ) and then use the same secondary sampling fraction for the animals whichever herd is involved , say φ = 20% . |
| 22 | He opened the desk drawer and took out a page at random . |
| 23 | Unlike cable systems , which provide a continuous scroll of information , the IRIS system allows the viewer to select any page at random . |
| 24 | Open one of the new novels of the 1950s and read a page at random , and one is reminded of the inter-war comic fictions of P. G. Wodehouse or the early social novels of George Orwell . |
| 25 | I selected a page at random and started reading . |
| 26 | He folded back a page at random and read the chapter heading . |
| 27 | Such expressions as ( to pick a semantic area at random ) fine weather , torrential rain , light drizzle , high winds are examples of collocations . |
| 28 | These can be an entertaining way of testing yourself , and some of the more sophisticated products can be made to generate batches of questions for a paper at random , just to add to the challenge . |
| 29 | If cases were selected for a particular disposal at random , Galloway suggested , how could proper consideration be being given to the welfare of the child in every case ? |
| 30 | She picked up a dusty-looking volume at random and flipped through the pages . |