Example sentences of "cover with a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cover with a weighted plate . |
| 2 | Cover with a greased plastic bag and leave in a warm place for about 60 mins , until risen . |
| 3 | Cover with a cardboard frame — the acetate being centralised . |
| 4 | Cover with a damp cloth and leave in a warm place until double in volume — about 1¼–1½ hours . |
| 5 | There will usually be an instruction which tells you to either steam , press , or cover with a damp cloth after blocking pieces so size . |
| 6 | Cover with a damp cloth and iron gently , fusing the woven ribbon to the interfacing . |
| 7 | Put them together at the last possible moment and cover with a damp tea towel until you serve them . |
| 8 | Cool for 5 minutes then cover with a damp tea towel . |
| 9 | Cover with a clear polythene bag . |
| 10 | Cover with a thin layer of compost , and water . |
| 11 | Eventually he owned most of the country between Bath and Malmesbury , an estate that he covered with a complete range of model estate buildings , from tiny farm workers ' cottages to his great house at Grittleton . |
| 12 | The beams from these two heaters covered the whole of the lambing pen , 18ft. x 6ft. in area , which Peter also covered with a liberal quantity of straw on the floor . |
| 13 | It seemed firm but covered with a thin layer of seawater . |
| 14 | It is manufactured in Belgium on behalf of Outdoor Style from Airex foam covered with a waterproofed material , Softex 200 . |
| 15 | Prevention of infection is the objective whenever surgical wounds are cleaned and covered with a sterile dressing or spray . |
| 16 | The threshold of the burrow was covered with a day-old fall of soft soil from the roof above . |
| 17 | The table was covered with a spotless cloth . |
| 18 | Her long blonde tresses were partially covered with a simple headband , a floral coronet and a chiffon train . |
| 19 | Thomas Pennant observed in 1782 that the Grand Junction Canal , between Trent and Mersey , had brought in new building materials : ‘ the cottage , instead of being half covered with miserable thatch , is now covered with a substantial covering of tiles or slates , brought from the distant hills of Wales or Cumberland . |
| 20 | A good example is the placement of bright-yellow bricks and matching shapes on a table covered with a dark cloth or piece of material . |
| 21 | The landlord grinned , listed the contents of his larder , and within the half-hour served a couple of pullets stuffed with herbs and covered with a piquant sauce of sweet butter and wild berries , a skillet pasty , an apple tansy , and a prodigious marrow pudding . |
| 22 | There are two pockets on each side with those annoying bottom-to-top zippers and a full length main zip covered with a small stormflap . |
| 23 | Its body was covered with a rough hair plagued with small ticks , and the skin was hardened with the scales of a fish , but its human parts were more like those of a sickly angel than of a man , for its hands were tense and agile , its eyes large and gloomy , and on its shoulder-blades it had the scarred-over and calloused stumps of powerful wings which must have been chopped off by a woodman 's axe . |
| 24 | Instead , they are either covered with a corrugated iron roof or are in the street . |
| 25 | The wound was cleaned daily with sodium chloride 0.9% , the hydrogen peroxide cream applied and then covered with a non-adherent dressing and secured with a bandage . |
| 26 | The fry are born with large black eyes , but these steadily reduce in size over a period of weeks until they are covered with a cartilaginous sheath . |
| 27 | Prior to fixing this lid the inner joints , base and sides were caulked with swedish pitch , the base covered with a shallow layer of bran and sawdust over which the bottom sheet was tacked — alternatively a fitted buttoned mattress could be supplied — then the side lining and , possibly , a ruched or broderie anglaise frill ; finally the pillow and the shrouded body . |
| 28 | Right A 19th-century French campaign bed in one bedroom is covered with a fringed panne velvet spread . |
| 29 | Perhaps more than any other group of molluscs the gastropods are remarkable for the variety and beauty of the external sculpture on the shell , which may be covered with a delicate tracery of ribs and lines , or stout spines , or fine prickles . |
| 30 | The tomb shows how the aesthetes of the age of Safdarjung liked their gateways to be as ornately sculpted as their prose was purple ; how they preferred their onion domes to be overextended and tapered ; how they thought the interior of a tomb incomplete unless covered with a rococo riot of elaborate plasterwork . |