| The existing factory buildings have been spruced up to house exhibition, workshop and office spaces. |
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| Shops along the southern side of Union Street also need to be spruced up but are now the subject of intensive public debate. |
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| Twenty minutes later I saw him looking all spruced up, chirpy and chipper sporting a gold earring in front of me at the Sainsbury check-out. |
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| This is the version we get on this DVD, which is essentially a port of the 1998 laserdisc, though with a spruced up digital transfer. |
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| The mono audio track has been spruced up, and hiss is almost entirely absent. |
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| Johannesburg has many delightful parks and open green spaces, all of which have been spruced up. |
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| Enhanced lighting and heating systems will provide a warmer feel, and outside the station will also be spruced up and painted. |
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| The city centre has been spruced up in recent years, although to look at the grimy exteriors you wouldn't know it. |
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| The company relocated 21 of its smallest stores to bigger outlets in the year and spruced up 135 other shops in a refurbishment programme. |
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| Decked out in bunting and flying the Red Ensign, the iconic boat had been spruced up for the occasion. |
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| Castledermot is looking nicely spruced up, although some premises are sadly neglected, and in need of a face lift. |
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| Since taking over two years ago he has attracted more subscribers and spruced up the marketing campaign. |
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| An entire show had been cancelled and the theatre hall spruced up with translucent blue illumination and coloured-halogen lights that danced to the music on smoke screens. |
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| Twenty young trainees from banks in Birmingham, Brighton, London, Newport, Andover and Bristol, brushed, scrubbed, painted and spruced up the pens. |
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| Teddy bear Fynn has quickly gathered everyone together: his best Teddy bear friends, who have all spruced up for the big photo shoot. |
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| On 23rd march 2010 first Kanlux products in new packaging, with a spruced up logo, will be introduced to the market. |
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| The queen mother feigned submission, spruced up her new home, threw lavish parties and gathered her court there. |
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| Or perhaps the concert or play is a family outing with grandparents, so the accompanying grandchildren are spruced up and especially attentive. |
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| So that spruced up my day again after all that fruitless mucking about with the water-maker. |
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| Knit is often spruced up with small details which make a big difference: sequins, little mink buttons, encrusted stones, braiding or fur collars. |
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| The colours are spruced up but the pink shade is now associated with consumption. |
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| We have thoroughly spruced up the centre and its activities since last year. |
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| Dili, the capital, an ungainly sprawl between the mountains and the sea, has been spruced up. |
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| The capital, Palermo, is also being spruced up with EU millions. |
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| Risk management a discipline in which Mr Thain is said to excel needs to be spruced up, to put it kindly. |
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| Both guns are spruced up with sterling thumb piece inlays on the wrist. |
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| More than 40 elderly residents living in sheltered accommodation schemes in Wickford benefited from a troop of volunteers who spruced up their homes. |
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| From the street outside, the spruced up nineteenth-century facade of the hermetic perimeter block gives little clue to the drama of the internal transformation. |
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| A young boy spruced up a grave without looking up. |
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| Microsoft has spruced up its WebTV product. |
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| As part of an ambitious urban renewal program, the Finnish port city of Hamina has been spruced up with a thousand lights, shining on its fabulous historic monuments. |
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| Archaeological sites were spruced up, new buildings erected. |
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| While many cities have spruced up old streets into shopping lanes or rebuilt ancient watchtowers, like Beijing, none have attempted it on Datong's scale. |
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| Stadiums had to be ready in a dozen cities for the football World Cup in June, airports spruced up to welcome foreign visitors, and roads built to whisk them to venues. |
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| I am delighted to see that the Farm Debt Review Act is being spruced up. |
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| In Guinea, whenever it was rumoured that President Conte has died, he would reappear some days later, all spruced up in the front seat of a four-wheel drive car, always holding a cigarette. |
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| A call to the aquarium's curator, Paul Sieswerda, revealed that the bathysphere had been moved indoors, where it was being spruced up for a gala unveiling in early June. |
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| The Averso with feel-good furnishings has really spruced itself up. |
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| Yoplait Delicieux and Yoplait Tubes have spruced up their appearance. |
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| The space that remains will be spruced up for the winter. |
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| In 2006, on the occasion of its 75th anniversary, the main entrances and areas surrounding the Botanical Garden administration building were spruced up with greenery. |
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| The Happy Mondays maracas maestro has had his beloved motor spruced up for the British version of hit MTV show Pimp My Ride. |
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| Hotel and restaurant interiors have been spruced up and modernized. |
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| This classic plane has been spruced up with a little Jelly Belly flavour. |
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| About 100 employee painters took part in a special Day of Caring event as the Native Women's Transition Centre was spruced up with a coat of new paint. |
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| We wore hand-me-downs, hand-me-down again and spruced it up to look good. Didn't look secondhanded or nothing when we finished adding the touch to it. |
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| Thousands of spectators from the world over will on Sunday flock to an unrecognisably spruced up Jawaharlal Nehru stadium for the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games. |
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