Example sentences of "see ed [noun] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Thai government has responded to conservationist pressure by announcing its intention to crack down on its illegal wildlife trade [ see ED no. 45 ] . |
| 2 | Under particular threat are the 1,700 remaining greater one-XXXX horned rhinos , native to Nepal and India , the 3,400 black rhinos of east and southern Africa , the last rhinos in Sumatra ( 700 ) and Java , where only 65 remain [ see ED no. 45 ] . |
| 3 | The report was drawn up as part of the evidence in the recently completed court case against Exxon [ see ED no. 45 ] . |
| 4 | Faced with accumulating evidence of rapid and widespread loss of ozone [ see ED no. 59-60 ] , officials agreed a complete phase-out of production of CFCs , carbon tetrachloride and methyl chloride in industrialised countries by the end of 1995 , and to stop halon production by January 1 1994 , with essential uses to be met by existing supplies . |
| 5 | It follows the launch of similar , but smaller-scale , networks in continental Europe , and the first ever group car purchasing plan , set up in Germany [ see ED no. 53/54 ] . |
| 6 | The Wildlife Protection Law was passed after sustained lobbying from environmental groups [ see ED no. 53/54 ] . |
| 7 | A prolonged period of low rainfall has led to drought conditions in much of the south and east of the UK , with the problem compounded by increasing abstraction from rivers and groundwater for domestic and industrial uses [ see ED no. 57 ] . |
| 8 | The move followed Czechoslovakia 's failure to halt work on the dam [ see ED no. 58 ] . |
| 9 | The land rights do not , however , extend to underground mineral reserves [ see ED no. 58 for details of British Gas 's activities in Ecuador ] . |
| 10 | Much of the detailed work on the conventions agreed at the summit was carried out at a series of four preparatory conferences , known as " prepcoms " , the most recent of which , " Prepcom 4 " , was held in New York in April [ see ED no. 58 ] . |
| 11 | This estimate is based on the assumption that the Protocol will be rigorously obeyed — a presumption which has been called into question by India 's recent refusal to sign [ see ED no. 52 ] . |
| 12 | This contrasts with ICI 's claim that it is " firmly committed to the protection of the environment , and fully supports the Montreal Protocol [ on the protection of the ozone layer — see ED no. 52 ] . |
| 13 | The EC Environment Commissioner has reaffirmed his intention to pursue objections to UK road building projects which allegedly infringe EC environmental directives [ see ED no. 52 ] . |
| 14 | The government 's decision to press ahead with the work , allegedly without carrying out an adequate environmental impact assessment , led to a threat of legal action from the European Commission [ see ED no. 52 ] . |
| 15 | The committee — popularly referred to as the " God Squad " — was appointed in October 1991 [ see ED no. 52 ] . |
| 16 | Environmentalists said that Mr MacGregor had been ill-advised , and pointed out that the Department 's environmental assessment policies had been criticized by both the EC [ which has threatened the UK with legal action over the matter — see ED no. 52 ] and the government 's Standing Committee on Trunk Road Assessment . |
| 17 | It was upheld at last year 's meeting in Noordwijk [ see ED no. 37/38 ] . |
| 18 | The treaty banning mining of the Antarctic for at least 50 years has finally been signed , at a ceremony in Madrid , several months after it was originally agreed in April [ see ED no. 46 ] . |
| 19 | The subsidies had been reintroduced in April [ see ED no. 47 ] . |
| 20 | The German government 's proposals for new regulations designed to ensure that most packaging material is recycled by the year 1995 [ see ED no. 47 ] , are meeting criticism from industrial sources . |
| 21 | " Permits to pollute " can be traded between plants , under a system initiated by the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA — see ED No. 47 ) . |
| 22 | A Russian Green Party was set up in May [ see ED no. 47 ] . |
| 23 | The International Water Tribunal ( IWT ) has told the Canadian province of Quebec that it should not proceed with its controversial James Bay hydroelectric project [ see ED no. 47 ] until a full environmental impact assessment has been carried out . |
| 24 | The principle of pollution trading was established in the Clean Air Act [ see ED no. 47 ] , and a pollution futures market is scheduled to be opened in Chicago in 1993 [ see ED no. 51 ] . |
| 25 | The Madrid meeting was technically the second part of the 11th special session of the Treaty conference , the first part of which had been held in Vina del Mar , Chile , at the end of 1990 [ see ED no. 41-42 ] . |
| 26 | The decline comes against a background of global concern over reduced populations of amphibians worldwide [ see ED No. 49/50 ] . |
| 27 | The dramatic improvement in breeding among Shetland 's seabird colonies [ see ED no. 49/50 ] has been confirmed . |
| 28 | The state of California recently announced stringent new regulations designed to cut vehicle emissions [ see ED no. 49/50 ] . |
| 29 | Last year , the Bank pledged not to support any further logging projects in rainforests [ see ED no. 49/50 ] . |
| 30 | It is similar to Germany 's stringent recycling laws announced last year [ see ED no. 49/50 ] . |