| The 21-story-tall ocean liner was dry-docked at an Atlantic coastal shipyard for finishing touches before its maiden voyage. |
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| A civic centre is nearing completion here with the finishing touches being added by the contractor. |
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| The final phase will allow finishing touches to be applied to the scheme and any last-minute glitches to be ironed out. |
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| I'm putting the finishing touches to a government sponsored awareness campaign that'll change public perception. |
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| Choose from our extensive collection of soutaches, crystal beading, and tassel or silk fringe for the finishing touches. |
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| Activists putting the finishing touches on boots at a Zapatista run workshop. |
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| After lunch I set to work putting the finishing touches on my birthday cake, unfortunately destroying my chocolate ganache in the process. |
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| If you prefer an elegant modern look, the impact of finishing touches like skirting boards can make or break the overall design. |
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| Nowadays, the Queen and her family usually put the finishing touches to the tree's decorations. |
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| Whatever your style, it's the finishing touches that set the scene and add a touch of class and individuality to your wedding day. |
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| The finishing touches are being put to many little projects, which have been organised for the occasion. |
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| But it now looks like the finishing touches could be added in time for next year's centenary celebrations. |
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| Several thousand pounds would be needed for the finishing touches like garden sculptures and a seating area. |
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| The building work has taken about three months to complete with just some cosmetic finishing touches and clearing up to be done. |
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| It's obvious that the students have been working hard on their designs, and the finishing touches are yet to come. |
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| Teenage tunesmiths The Banners have just put the finishing touches to their first album of songs. |
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| A small army of workmen were busily engaged yesterday, in putting on the finishing touches of the embellishments. |
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| Councillors have put the finishing touches to the document which will be sent to residents in three zones in the borough next month. |
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| Organisers are now putting together the finishing touches for what is guaranteed to be the biggest Old Town Festival yet. |
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| The utility room still needs some finishing touches to bring it up to the standard of the other rooms in the house. |
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| Children planted trees to put the finishing touches to their school's new multi-cultural garden. |
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| An elderly man is adding the finishing touches to a beautiful doll's house he has been building. |
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| The finishing touches are being made to two major new pieces of art in Bolton town centre. |
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| Young friends of a boy who died under the wheels of a lorry have been adding the finishing touches to a community garden created in his memory. |
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| Ian, the sanctuary manager, has been busy on the grader putting the finishing touches to a firebreak. |
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| For finishing touches, bits of green dough were pressed through a garlic press and placed under the feet of the figures for grass. |
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| Notes on finishing touches and plating are included, illustrated by splendid pictures. |
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| A boatbuilder is busy putting the finishing touches to three vessels which he is set to exhibit at the Austrian Boat Show. |
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| Other than that, I've managed to put the finishing touches on some bits of music I've been working on. |
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| Each creative, delicious dish is prepared in the galley or at tableside with a very attentive waiter adding the finishing touches. |
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| In the bottom register a goldsmith is putting finishing touches to a column headed by horses' heads and a bell-like top with a winged genie. |
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| I regard it as unjust to ascribe this proof exclusively to Gauss, who merely added the finishing touches. |
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| The arthropodes, like centipedes, beetles, millipedes and worms, bring in the finishing touches to complete the composting. |
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| We're putting the finishing touches on everything, preparing for our dress rehearsal April 9th. |
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| Young skaters and BMX bikers in Pewsey have been putting the finishing touches to their latest project, a half pipe ramp. |
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| The actors have been rehearsing the play since after the Christmas break and are putting the finishing touches to their respective roles. |
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| Up in his room Josh put the last finishing touches on his hair and straightened the black bow tie of his tux. |
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| He had air dashed to Chennai from Bikaner, on a chartered aircraft last night, to provide the finishing touches. |
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| According to zoo officials, the stuffing is almost over and finishing touches are being given to the animal's eyes and nails. |
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| Here, a team of young computer science whizz-kids are putting the finishing touches to Alex. |
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| The finishing touches are being put to the biggest-ever interactive exhibition to come to Manchester. |
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| I stood by him transfixed and awed that he possessed the knowledge and the talent to paint the finishing touches on the corpse's lips. |
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| In the spring he told us that he was just putting on the finishing touches. |
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| In an office cocooned from the smell of fresh paint and the sounds of a concrete mixer, the general manager of Perth Racecourse is putting the finishing touches to a letter. |
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| At the moment she is putting the finishing touches to a set of new paintings, which will be on display at an exhibition at the gallery this weekend. |
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| After putting the finishing touches to an instrument, he plucks a mournful tune which fills the workshop, his big brown eyes briefly lost in thought. |
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| A gray felt hat and gray doeskin gloves lent the finishing touches. |
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| On request, we propose the services of our interior decorator who will accompany you and advise you for all your finishing touches. |
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| In addition, the extremely sapid acidity which accompanies the wine throughout, adds the finishing touches of harmony and vivacity. |
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| For this year's trade fair, we put the finishing touches to a stand concept based on a peepshow model. |
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| Then we put the whole thing together in Paris before putting the finishing touches to the album in New York. |
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| A goldsmith and enameller is putting the finishing touches to a gold crown heavily encrusted with large cabochons. |
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| Even as workers were putting finishing touches on the premises, the little pirates were set loose. |
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| With the help of a simple adze and a knife for the finishing touches, wood is carved then buffed by the abrading leaves of ficus. |
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| This model clearly expresses its taste for colourful variety, radiantly luxurious materials and delicate finishing touches. |
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| But though Sheridan's view of his subject was clearly somewhat rose-tinted, it was not his hand that drafted the really flowery finishing touches to the Guerin character. |
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| And rumour has it the crooning chanteuse may well have put the finishing touches to a few new songs by then. |
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| This warm weather should allow the vines to add the finishing touches for a perfect ripening of the grapes. |
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| In an ideal world, George Osborne would be sitting in the Treasury putting the finishing touches to a nice, fat giveaway budget. |
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| Many of the workers are young peasant women, perhaps not eager to be seen putting the finishing touches to a Christmas Lover vibrator. |
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| Beautiful art, good books and much more are in this 12-piece set to add the finishing touches. |
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| A craftsman joiner, distinguished by his long white apron, poses on a pair of stepladders, apparently putting the finishing touches to an open door. |
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| The children had a choice of fake fur, felt, hessian and netting to transform their bags and then added the finishing touches with buttons and ribbons. |
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| So when it comes time to put on the finishing touches, you know you have the equipment you can rely on to get the job done and done well. |
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| The Company is now putting the finishing touches on one of the largest brownfield conversions to public recreational use in North America. |
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| The finishing touches have included nesting boxes and wildlife havens. |
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| After 20 minutes under a heat lamp, I was ready for the finishing touches. |
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| Bulgaria and Romania now have about twenty months to put the finishing touches to their preparations for accession. |
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| Renovation of the service quarters and its former outer bailey would enable the future owners to add their finishing touches to the unit. |
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| Modern day comforts have already been added, just leaving some minor restoration and general maintenance works to add the finishing touches. |
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| In 2000 the Commission put the finishing touches to its new policy and strategy for rural development. |
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| Which is why we must call for finishing touches in the form of a more flexible definition of which groups are to benefit. |
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| Adding those beautiful finishing touches is an effortless way of styling your home. |
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| These two new inserts now apply the finishing touches to an already vast range of choice. |
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| At the time this article was written, the finishing touches were being made to the plan for launching the project. |
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| Our ideas matured over three years, and then for the last three years we have been putting the finishing touches. |
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| Visit our Picture Frames section to see what kind of beautiful finishing touches you can add to Paint Shop Pro and Paint Shop Photo Album. |
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| The Prime Minister and the thirteen provincial and territorial leaders are meeting there tonight to put the finishing touches on a new Constitutional Accord. |
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| Does the creature resemble a half-finished 8th grade computer graphics project without finishing touches like texture mapping or surface smoothing? |
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| Back in newsroom, subs anxiously await copy that they must check, correct and cut to fit their assigned pages, while Caroline, 16, puts the finishing touches to the paper. |
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| In the slightly cloudy weather, students swarm around parade floats, helping put on finishing touches before our high school takes off on its annual homecoming parade. |
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| The current cold wave is just in time for St. Paul's annual Winter Carnival, where workers last night were putting the finishing touches on the ice palace. |
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| Sauces are genuine all-rounders. They ensure that a dish is perfectly flavoured, they add colour to the plate and they put the finishing touches to any meal. |
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| Similarly, we are putting the finishing touches on one of the regionís most promising projects, costing some two billion dollars, to provide electric energy thanks to the Kapanda dam in the Malange region. |
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| Shoes of all hues, as well as the now ubiquitous hatinators add the finishing touches to your look. |
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| The last three were stored in a safe deposit box in Havana, as he focused on the finishing touches for A Moveable Feast. |
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| Meanwhile, WAE is putting the finishing touches on an anodizing plant from Italy with a capacity of 4,800MT per annum. |
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| After its launching, finishing touches still remain. |
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| But few of these barracks were totally finished, many had to be occupied while they were in the process of being constructed and it was necessary that the personnel and convalescents help put on the finishing touches. |
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| Some of the tracks having been written while the combo was on the road, Bruno and his bandmates only had to put the finishing touches to it before he could start rehearsing. |
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| When the painting is done, she puts on the finishing touches, including tiny red veins, which are too small to replicate with a paintbrush, even the size 0 and 00 red sable brushes that ocularists favor. |
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| A COVENTRY breakdance group who run workshops in schools are appealing for businesses to help put the finishing touches to their act. |
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| Romantically luxurious farm gardens and native animal species enliven the scenery and add the finishing touches to an amazingly authentic atmosphere. |
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| Putting the finishing touches on the email, Evan hit send. |
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| Students put finishing touches on new mural. |
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| Eurojust and the future European public prosecutor are the finishing touches to a suffocatingly centralised, unaccountable, nightmarish structure for each and every citizen and, more importantly, for the grass-roots movement. |
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| While bystanders applaud the luxurious vessels as they glide past the banks of the River Ems under their own steam for the first few miles, the finishing touches are being added to the interior. |
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| A few feet away, Empty Bowls Chairwoman Mary Briggs put the finishing touches on a soup bowl. |
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| Although Virgil died before he could put the finishing touches on his poem, it was soon recognized as the greatest work of Latin literature. |
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| Ernie Nagamatsu spent this week putting the finishing touches on Old Yeller II, a road-racing mutt of a sports car that will be in England Sept. |
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| This is the opinion of Olivier de Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, who is putting the finishing touches to his report on the consequences of trade liberalization on world hunger and national policies. |
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| In its place, we have these paltry finishing touches, whilst the Pact continues to have the effect of amplifying, indeed of provoking, the economic and social difficulties of our countries. |
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| He's in desperate need of accessories to put the finishing touches to the glitzily glam, twisted musical shows that are fast becoming notorious. |
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| Secondly, we are now putting the finishing touches on a quality control program for decisions on whether individuals are entitled to hold a passport. |
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| Each of these finishing touches are done by the best artists of their trade, chosen for the quality of their material, their mastership and their respect of the photographer. |
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| These new machines have been developed in such a way that traditional and experienced bar turners can use their expertise and experience in order to put the final finishing touches to the machining of parts. |
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| In the summer of '99, just before she went into the studio to put the finishing touches to her new album, Véronique put in an appearance on the summer festival circuit. |
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| Lauren Reid, of Bespoke Hairdressing in Belfast, puts the finishing touches to Chris Hutchinson's pink quiff to celebrate the arrival of the event to Northern Ireland. |
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