Object

• smoking: I just wish they would ban smoking in there!

• import: To prevent possible misuses, we have banned soybean grain imports.

Preposition: on

• hunting: We will introduce a Government Bill to repeal Labor's ban on hunting.

• smoking: The Sunday Mirror reported that the Royal College of Nurses has called for a ban on public smoking by 2008 for health reasons.

Adjective modifier

• outright: The MPs voted by 317 to 145 for an outright ban.

• partial: However; on the night of the vote I actually felt the argument falling away from the proponents of the partial ban.

Converse of object

• impose: Wouldn't it be best to impose a total ban on smoking at work?

• overturn: The Law Lords unanimously upheld the Court of Appeal's decision to overturn the ban on the license originally imposed by the High Court.

• lift: The judge then lifted a press ban on naming the killers.

• enforce: The sightings have raised fears that little is being done to enforce the ban.

• defy: Controversial cleric vows to defy mosque ban 18 January 2003 Charity bosses remove Abu Hamza.

Noun used with modifier

• hosepipe: Posted by Ham on 3 April, 2006 at 3:59 PM The hosepipe ban in London is a bit of a farce.

• smoking: Talk about the health benefits of the smoking ban.

• blanket: With their blanket bans they have given up any tenuous moral right they may have had.

• three-match: Bryan Smith and Nana Badu will be able to enjoy their turkey, however, as they begin one and three-match bans respectively.

• overtime: In 1998, a dispute over overtime pay let to an overtime ban.

• hunting: Field sport campaigners claim Labor MPs pressing for a total hunting ban are acting out of class hatred rather than concern for animals.

Modifies a noun

• treaty: When the ban treaty was opened for signature in December 1997, 122 governments signed.