Preposition: in

• nature: This may cause any number of apparent faults with serial communications which may also be intermittent in nature.

Modifies a noun

• claudication: Figure: Effects of exercise on walking distance or time compared with placebo in patients with intermittent claudication Adverse effects None were reported.

• catheterisation: Of all the patients in the study, only two patients were being treated by intermittent catheterisation.

• self-catheterisation: Intermittent self-catheterisation involves passing a tube ( catheter ) up the urethra into the bladder, to drain off any liquid.

• catheter: Today there is a wide range of intermittent catheters available.

• porphyria: The skin is never affected in acute intermittent porphyria.

• drizzle: Slight intermittent drizzle was to be with us for the rest of the day.

Modifying Another Word

• usually: The result is usually intermittent banging caused by pockets of steam.

• only: After the Turkish attack and until May 24th there was only intermittent sniping.

• very: Long gap but returned in force during July and early August but then very intermittent through September.

• not: They are baseload and not intermittent so they do not need extra backup or grid reinforcement.

• somewhat: Their end can be either abrupt or somewhat intermittent.

• often: The symptoms of system incompatibility with audio hardware are often intermittent clicks or drop-outs.

Used with adjective complement

• become: The precipitation remained light all evening, becoming intermittent by midnight.

• experience: She continued to experience intermittent swelling of her right leg following standing for any prolonged period.

• have: If your car does not have intermittent wipe ( if it does why are you reading this?

• seem: It seemed intermittent so wrote everything it was doing down on paper and booked the car into Renault dealer.

• go: There are 4 general faults with electric kettles Standard plug-in kettles Heating element may just " die " , or sometimes go intermittent.