Example sentences of "[was/were] brought in from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Both were brought in from the garden — home grown — and never left the kitchen until Cook gave them to Edith for the table . |
| 2 | Although many of the better-paid staff , especially those with engineering expertise , were brought in from all over the country , much of the local labour came from the town of Bridgwater , ten miles away by road . |
| 3 | After 1760 bulls were brought in from England , the Netherlands and southern Scotland to improve them and some farmers began to specialise in certain colours or coat patterns . |
| 4 | Powerful fans were brought in from other mines and taken down into Bank mine to disperse the gases . |
| 5 | Workers were brought in from all of the Eglinton properties to repair the damage of the first day and to improve the condition of the lists . |
| 6 | Many of these civilians were brought in from other mining areas in Romania . |
| 7 | We crossed the fields below Underwood and made our way back home as cows were brought in to milk and children were brought in from play for their tea . |
| 8 | Above all he had conceived a mission to " clean up Cardiff " by " fighting The System " by which the " slimily cunning oddments of humanity " , the boarding house keepers , the cafe owners , the Red Lamp proprietors , even the laundrymen , battened on the sailors and their families The Achilles Heel of " The System " was , he concluded , the Chinese element in the port , especially when Chinese seamen were brought in from outside and used as blacklegs by the employers . |
| 9 | The economy was strengthened and German miners were brought in from Transylvania to develop the copper , tin , gold , silver and lead mines of the interior . |
| 10 | Silver , lead , copper , iron and mercury were the most important metals which were brought in from the mines some of which were owned by Ragusan merchants — in Bosnia , Serbia and Kosovo . |
| 11 | Specialist police squads were brought in from outside constabularies , and their containment tactics included the deployment of ‘ snatch squads ’ and the indiscriminate batoning of pickets ( Scraton , 1985b:158 ) . |
| 12 | Sheep were few , cows were kept only in small herds possibly of no more than six for dairy use , mostly of mixed breeds and the horses were brought in from the Midlands . |
| 13 | We opened up the parish hall to the wounded and dead which were brought in from all parts of the village . |
| 14 | In 1988 Mr Kevin Gavaghan was brought in from the Burton Group , a British clothes retailer , to be the bank 's marketing director . |
| 15 | Dunn was brought in from Ford , where he was director of product development in 1983 ; he will be best remembered for the development of the Bentley Turbo R , now the company 's best-selling model . |
| 16 | We reckon she was brought in from somewhere nearby , and dumped on us . |
| 17 | This was given , then I said ‘ You were the gentleman who was brought in from the ‘ Cock ’ are you not ? ’ |
| 18 | Road blocks were set up and a helicopter equipped with heat-seeking equipment was brought in from Manchester as police began a house-to-house search . |
| 19 | In 1979 an operational researcher was brought in from the academic world to look at the use being made of Exminster . |
| 20 | Crawford Allan was brought in from RBIS Head Office to be Director , Operations ; David Miller moved from Aberdeen Office to become Manager , Schemes Unit ; and Alex Graham and Bob Aitken left Edinburgh Centre — Alex to become Manager , Corporate Unit and Bob to set up and manage the Training Department . |
| 21 | Left-sided utility man Donal O'Neill was brought in from Omagh , along with Derek Donaghy , ex-Ballyclare Comrades full back and Denis Rodgers , a centre back from the Welders . |
| 22 | Tory Peter Jones said it was time South Africa was brought in from the cold . |