Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] at random " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talking to Saraceno is a runaway train ride , a ‘ stream of consciousness ’ affair prone to sudden changes of track , with alternate persona interrupting at random . |
| 2 | Darryl Davidson of Gregson Road , Hoghton , Preston wins a VIP day out for a party of four people on the East Lancashire Railway because he was the first entry selected at random with the four correct answers to our quiz based on the North West line . |
| 3 | Quoting Godard — ‘ fin du cinéma , fin du monde ’ — she joins with Robert Coover in describing the modern cinema as ‘ a rat-haunted , urine-scented wreck , inhabited only by a lonely projectionist screening reels at random for his solitary pleasure ’ . |
| 4 | Such argument as there is turns on the need to secure unanimity , the need to have , in the original position , one viewpoint which can be the ‘ standpoint of one person selected at random ’ which excludes bargaining and guarantees unanimity . |
| 5 | The Dadaists , a nonsense name chosen at random , evolved the idea of a miniature variety show and held their first show in a little bar , the Cabaret Voltaire . |
| 6 | Even if the baby wakes at random times — in order to feed , for example — there are some times of the 24 hours when its environment is less stimulating and responsive than others . |
| 7 | So a supervisor appears at random , on some occasions they get tokens , some occasions they do n't . |
| 8 | The basic examination should consist of : ( a ) an interview with frequent switching from language to language ; ( b ) an improvised short speech in the first language on a topic chosen at random , to assess general knowledge ; ( c ) non-technical information in one language to be rendered consecutively in a second language ; ( d ) translation from a text off-the-cuff . |
| 9 | In conjunction with J. P. Manning Prentice , who was then director of the British Astronomical Association 's meteor section , Alcock watched as particles of dust from space dashed at random to their fiery death in the atmosphere , appearing as shooting stars . |
| 10 | Draw up a life table for a cohort of 5000 students showing , for each year of study , the probability of leaving and the expected remaining stay calculated on the assumption that one-tenth of the leavers in any year depart at random times during the year and the remainder go at the end of that year . |