(1) While visitors amble freely around the newly refurbished inside – the Pierhead is sure and steadfast in its role outside as the drastic red building, emblazoning the landscape of Cardiff Bay in all its regal beauty.
(2) Our aim is to complete the second phase of our redevelopment [the Front of House refurbishment] by then, which will require my full focus.
(3) Thompson said its sale "represents another milestone in the way the BBC is changing" from a number of broadcasting bases to key HQs in the capital and around the country, including the newly-refurbished Broadcasting House in central London and BBC North in Salford.
(4) Berrimah, built 35 years ago, has been beset by reports that it is too harsh an environment for children – particularly young female offenders, who will be housed in the former maximum security wing – and is falling apart, despite $800,000 worth of refurbishments.
(5) Public outrage is such that the Congress party is prepared to pay the price of potentially breaking their alliance with the DMK to refurbish their image," Paranjoy Thakurta, a respected commentator and journalist writing on corruption, told the Guardian.
(6) Some £60m was ploughed into refurbishments in 2013 with plans to invest the same amount in the new financial year.
(7) He changed the logo, moved the design studio from Paris to Los Angeles and started to refurbish the stores, decisions that were viewed with suspicion.
(8) Statue at New York Public Library , US TC Boyle , author Facebook Twitter Pinterest Refurbishment of the Rose reading room at New York Public Library.
(9) I think now in the the East End they are pinpointing a lot of the money into new flats and new housing estates and refurbishment of areas.
(10) He's planning next season's transfer strategy, he's involved in planning the refurbishment of Finch Farm" 4.07pm BST Top-notch mixture of fiction, straw-clutching and self-sacrifice here from Mark Judd: "I’ve never watched Game of Thrones so know little of what I talk about but if Wayne Rooney is advised to avoid weddings I’ll get remarried to anyone and invite him to the wedding if it ultimately gets him off the pay-roll at Old Trafford."
(11) We have seen continued investment in the playing squad; the expanded main stand; the new flagship retail store opening later this year; fully refurbished retail stores in Liverpool and Belfast; and we are consulting on a proposed development at our academy in Kirkby to bring together the first team and our young players.
(12) The hotel is adding 39 new rooms, due to open in June, as well as a refurbished fitness centre.
(13) A few years ago, he bought Lord Byron's old country estate in Hampton Court, and by all accounts the refurbishments would make Versailles look modest.
(14) The £40m dowry will be used to refurbish stores as Aeon outlets with the cash helping to preserve employment of Tesco's nearly 1,000 workforce.
(15) Revenues grew in the UK, however, where all its stores have been refurbished.
(16) So a rider was added to the contract at the end of 2013, authorising SETE not to refurbish the east lift or redevelop the area at the foot of the tower.
(17) His desire, he says, is to refurbish what he calls the "human rainbow.
(18) Culture secretary Maria Miller, communities secretary Eric Pickles and the prime minister's special representative for the centenary, Andrew Murrison, will unveil plans to spend more than £50m, including a substantial grant towards refurbishing the first world war galleries at the Imperial War Museum and a grant to make HMS Caroline, the last surviving warship from the battle of Jutland, into a floating museum.
(19) Like all cities in the UK, Leeds is already suffering from the effect of the coalition's first round of cuts over the summer: the end of Labour's £55bn Building Schools for the Future programme has hit the refurbishment or rebuilding programmes of more than 20 schools; funding has been culled from housing projects; school swimming pools and eco-towns plans, and plans to build 10 playgrounds are on hold.
(20) Local officials say 34 houses in the village of about 800 were too badly damaged to be refurbished.
Smarten
Definition:
(v. t.) To make smart or spruce; -- usually with up.
Example Sentences:
(1) That culture was reinforced elsewhere, with female staff told to smarten up, wear lipstick, and some required to attend trade shows where “booth babes” – scantily-clad models promoting products - were commonplace.
(2) The complaints ended after the inn changed hands in the late 18th century and was considerably smartened up.
(3) Yahoo Aviate Launcher (Free) Available in beta for a while, Aviate is now out and proud in the Google Play store, as the latest "launcher" app trying to smarten up Android users' homescreens.
(4) Smartening up our supply and use of electricity is an important aim – and the Conservatives are right to pull this issue into the public debate.
(5) Although she was credited with persuading him to lose weight and smarten up, she said she had found him attractive as he was.
(6) And now for a song In search of a younger scene, I head to a gallery called the Duchy , carved out of an old shop near St Mungo's Cathedral; it's a slightly ramshackle part of the city being smartened up for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
(7) He’s even smartened up, with shorn hair and a rather dapper jacket.
(8) "They're smartening up to sit at this table," says Jones.
(9) On joining Penguin, Facetti realised the publisher would need to smarten up its act and look more contemporary, if it were to compete with its new rivals.
(10) But some experts in the wine industry think the move by Harrods is not only in response to the growing competition of the internet, but also the arrival of the supermarkets (Tesco and Marks & Spencer in particular) into fine wines, and moves by rival department stores such as Selfridges, which have smartened up their the act.
(11) Then Hollande smartened up his act and dusted off his ambition.