Example sentences of "imported from [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company has just started to assemble video recorders , in Berlin and Newhaven in Britain , from kits of parts imported from Japan . |
| 2 | In addition to local production by Philips at Arusha , low-cost sets were imported from Japan , Hong Kong , West Germany and the Netherlands . |
| 3 | The factory which opened in 1986 at Washington , Tyne and Wear was capable of assembling 24,000 cars only and these were to be constructed from ‘ kits ’ imported from Japan . |
| 4 | Related to this dependence is that many of the metals are imported from countries which either have a near-monopoly , are politically unstable or which are ideologically opposed to the capitalist West . |
| 5 | And they went and bought it in Brazil instead imported from Brazil where people are working for nothing . |
| 6 | Trees are being imported from Florida for the vast Little Britain office complex near the Barbican . |
| 7 | He will take up residence on the cleared site of the Fun House , whose place has been taken by a vintage carousel originally imported from Coney Island by Alderman W G Bean , the founder of the Blackpool funfair . |
| 8 | It is likely that it was originally for wool drying , although there is a local tradition that it was also used for the drying of teazles , imported from Somerset , hence its local name of the Teazel Tower . |
| 9 | ‘ They 're imported from Korea . |
| 10 | The famous bull Terling Marthus , with plenty of American blood in his ancestry , was imported from South Africa and played a major role in continuing the British breed 's development . |
| 11 | It is uncertain whether these small shorthorns were simply the result of a gradual diminution in size of the earlier British cattle , possibly from a combination of selection and lack of nutrition , or were imported from Europe in the Bronze Age . |
| 12 | The idea of garden festivals was imported from Europe , particularly West Germany , where the concept had been in operation since 1945 . |
| 13 | Models imported from Europe tend to aim for higher levels of fuel saving , a wider range of feedstocks and a greater degree of automation in their operation . |
| 14 | The futuristic vision of hypnotic living and machine sex was imported from Europe : from Germany came Kraftwerk with ‘ Autobahn ’ and ‘ Trans-Europe Express ’ ; from France came Jean-Marc Cerrone with ‘ Supernature ’ and from the South Tyrol , crucially placed in the centre of Germany , Italian , Swiss and German culture , came Giorgio Moroder with Donna Summer 's ‘ Love To Love You Baby ’ and ‘ I Feel Love ’ . |
| 15 | As one Nigerian journalist explains , most African leaders have their drinking water imported from Europe — so why should they bother about the danger that dumped waste might contaminate underground water ? |
| 16 | These new appliances will replace products imported from Europe and will retailed in our stores from Spring nineteen ninety five . |
| 17 | Farmers at the Royal Show are demanding tighter government controls on livestock imported from Europe , to stop the spread of killer diseases . |
| 18 | The USA , which well within the memory of the majority of its inhabitants , was the world 's leading oil supplier , does not like being dependent on imported oil , particularly oil imported from areas of the world where political unrest means that a loss of supply — for instance through a closure of the Strait of Hormuz — is always a possibility . |
| 19 | Goods imported from OECD countries have an international market value ; when barter arrangements are not an option , they must be purchased out of scarce hard currency earnings . |
| 20 | The roof of the cells was made of corrugated iron , imported from Birmingham . |
| 21 | She freed it with a patent squirt imported from Finland , and hastily discontinued , called Superpiss . |
| 22 | Gluten is deficient in many high yielding varieties of wheat used in Britain , local flour being fortified by the addition of high gluten varieties imported from North America . |
| 23 | Coal specially imported from England to Baltic seaports was still stuck there , so that most engines were fuelled with ‘ nothing but logs … in most cases wet and covered with ice and snow … giving no heat … . |
| 24 | The Thoroughbreds were replaced by Arabians — many of which were imported from England . |
| 25 | A Scottish official , Jim O'Neill , said it was just more political dogma imported from England without thought to its impact . |
| 26 | Consumer affairs minister Baroness Denton said the dummies , imported from Spain and Taiwan , had no ventilation to prevent choking . |
| 27 | Values education is largely bound up with behaviour , and teachers blame the lowered expectations in behaviour on the emotional troubles imported from home — and on parents who have failed to draw the line on behaviour for their offspring . |
| 28 | It is ironic that early in this century the ubiquitous ranchbred Hereford of the western USA became too small in the bone and Beef Shorthorns were imported from Scotland to boost the Hereford 's size , whereas in the second half of the century the American Herefords have become much taller than those in Britain and are being re-imported to boost the height of the native herds . |
| 29 | The Red Pied Swedish ( RSB ) had originated in the late nineteenth century from the use of Ayrshire and Shorthorn bulls from Britain on local Herrgård and Småland cows ; Ayrshires had been imported from Scotland from 1847 to 1907 and a Swedish Ayrshire cattle association was formed in 1899 . |
| 30 | A. In the first factories , about two centuries ago , the managers employed workers to weave cotton cloth , using yarn , machinery and coal , all imported from Scotland . |