import - use in sentences
Preposition: of
- meat: The Prime Minister: There are strict rules that govern the import of meat.
- beef: West African cattle farmers suffered in the late 1990s from imports of beef from the European Union.
- foodstuff: The Ministry of Health is responsible for the import of other foodstuffs than the above.
Object
- ton: We imported 34.5 million tons of oilseed cake into the EU in 1999/2000, over 26.3 million tons of which was soya cake.
Converse of object
- ban: No country outside the Community has banned totally the import of animal protein from the UK.
- subsidize: Is the Iraqi food basket - a whole nation fed on subsidized imports - the way of the future?
- restrict: Why has the Prime Minister not more seriously restricted the illegal import of meat into this country?
- govern: The Prime Minister: There are strict rules that govern the import of meat.
Adjective modifier
- illegal: Illegal imports of foxes from Europe is another possibility.
- cheap: Cheap imports from overseas have not helped the situation.
- parallel: It has, however, confirmed its original statement that parallel imports were not involved in either of the fake medicine cases.
- Japanese: Russ Ballard - Russ Ballard Can you believe that the only way I could get this on CD was Japanese import?
- Jap: My previous vehicle was a Jap import, a Toyota Surf, in fact it did belong to a Japanese gentleman from Osaka.
- foreign: In 2020 foreign oil imports will account for 62 % of US supplies, compared to 53 % in 2000.
Modifies a noun
- sys: You can change the first two lines of code in moin.cgi to something like this: 1 2 import sys sys.
- tariff: If anything, the evidence for the 1990s indicates a positive relationship between import tariffs and economic growth.
- substitution: Harry Studholme reminded the Board that the issues were not just about import substitution, they were to do with sustainability generally.
- duty: Any customs or import duties levied once your parcel reaches your country will be the responsibility of the customer.
- taxis: The Board of Customs collected import taxes on goods via their network of Customs Officers at ports.
- filter: The version of In-Design you are using may or may not have the import filter you need.
The word usage examples above have been gathered from various sources to reflect current and historical usage. They do not represent the opinions of YourDictionary.com.
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