31.   Mainland European countries have destroyed thousands of animals imported from Britain before the export ban took effect.

32.   Many experts accuse Japan, along with the Soviet Union, of secretly over-hunting whales before the ban took effect two decades ago.

33.   Muller said the ban will take effect once administrative details are worked out.

34.   On Wednesday, a ban takes effect on smoking in theaters, hospitals, grade schools and public places.

35.   Police in Vietnam confiscated stocks of firecrackers, but they sounded throughout Hanoi after night fell, before a ban on them took effect at midnight.

36.   Some legislators wanted the sponsorship ban to take effect immediately.

37.   Still uncertain was when the ban would take effect.

38.   The ban will take effect in March, when key species like herring breed, Chen said.

39.   That would allow the ban to take effect this summer.

40.   The ban will take effect that day or within days of the meeting, Commission spokesman Gerard Kiely said.