Sentence examples for restored to something from inspiring English sources

(It was restored to something resembling its intended look a few years ago).

That would be sad," he murmurs, gesturing at the beguiling parade of homes and edifices, some crumbling, others newly restored to something like their old glory.

In Britain many old gardens are being restored to something like their original form most ambitiously the extensive landscape at Stowe in Buckinghamshire.

The deal will save the city at least $4m a year in maintenance, and locals hope to see the beautiful island restored to something like its former glory.

German bombing raid during the Second World War left the Rope Factory in ruins; but it has since been restored to something like its former glory.

The house, the gardens, and the pond have been restored to something quite close to their original condition, albeit more visitor-friendly.

If he is not restored to power, something that seems less and less likely to happen, Mr. Zelaya will probably soon fade from our collective memory, just like so many of his predecessors.

But the group will negotiate only if Morsi is restored to power first, something utterly unpalatable to the army and its new interim government.

In 1998, Nicholas Delbanco's father-in-law, the cellist Bernard Greenhouse, decided that his rare cello of heavenly tone, the Countess of Stanlein ExPaganini Stradivarius of 1707, needed to be restored "to give back something" to the classical music world.

What seems to be common to the restoration of virginity, the resurrection, and the closing of doors is that, in all three cases, something is restored to its original state.

Their plan is to run the house as an "historic site" - restored, presumably, to something like the condition it would have been in when Updike was in residence, and open by appointment to visiting "writers and scholars".