When after a while I had done neither, a weariness came over me, and I decided my best course was just to choose a cottage at random, knock on the door, and hope it would be opened by someone who remembered me.
Julia: Listen, I'm just playing it safe before I get a random knock on my door and it's Tammy.
There are always a few random ingredients knocking around in Alex and Claire's kitchen – on this occasion, we had the livers and hearts left over from the pheasants they'd got in for Christmas, which, with a spoonful of celeriac purée on the base, made for extremely tasty little cocottes.
Or you can just pick a likely candidate at random and knock up a complex but meaningless equation to make it look "sciencey", because a travel company paid you to.
If the police chose a door at random and knocked for the purpose of asking the occupants if they knew a person who fit the description of the suspect, would it have been reasonably foreseeable that the occupants would seek to destroy evidence?
So this random mutation knocked out rhodopsin [the gene for vision] in one of the species, but not the species we just described.
Through dark streets with mounds of trash on the corners, we wound our way through the slums of El Centro to a seemingly random door, knocked, and were greeted by a woman who showed us to our room.
"[Genetic drift is when] a random event knocks out one genotype".
Each trajectory was constructed as follows: One out of 583 genes was chosen at random and knocked out, i.e., its g i was set to be identically 0. The constrained FBA growth rate was determined for the attractors of the resultant dynamical system of 582 genes for each of the 81 minimal media discussed above.
The first was when two random people came knocking asking if they could come inside and have a look at Ivan Milat's house.
