Adjective complement with noun phrase

• seem: Extinction It seems that something much more random could have played a significant role.

Modifies a noun

• generator: Unusual features: A random number generator is required.

• sample: Also included are two random samples of 100 records.

• sampling: The sample group was obtained by simple random sampling from 105 licensed units in the United Kingdom.

• mutation: The team found the mystery protein through screening random mutations in mice.

• variable: The Poisson Distribution Recall what we meant by a random variable.

• selection: Make random selections from hundreds of rhythms matching the grade level.

Modifying Another Word

• seemingly: The movie opens up with a seemingly random group of people suddenly dropping stone-cold dead in Boston.

• apparently: A series of apparently random murders has brought an eerie quiet to the city.

• purely: Or perhaps the selection of the dates is purely random.

• completely: Press the button for your numbers Numbers generated are completely random.

• utterly: You'll recognize them; them, they're the ' eccentric ' folk who drift from place to place making utterly random comments.

• totally: As far as they could determine, the victims were not being interrogated; the violence appeared totally random.

Used with adjective complement

• appear: As far as they could determine, the victims were not being interrogated; the violence appeared totally random.

• seem: Why do the durations and frequencies of both normal and reversed states seem random?

Preposition: in

• street: The soldiers also killed at random in streets and houses, so that no witnesses would remain.

Preposition: from

• entry: A winner will be selected at random from all entries received by 9 am on Friday, August 4.

• register: The Audit Data was collected retrospectively from 105 sets of written patient records selected at random from the practice diabetes register.

• answer: MI6 will choose the winners at random from the correct answers received.

Preposition: by

• computer: Winners will be drawn at random by computer on the specified date.