Example sentences of "but [subord] his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must be able to judge not only when and how , but where his weight should be applied … |
| 2 | The third possibility is that the plaintiff may take up a position which is not in itself dangerous but where his failure to take precautions increases the risk of the extent of harm which he may suffer . |
| 3 | But once his intellect is satisfied , he does not need intellect to follow that path . |
| 4 | But although his name will recur in pedigrees into the foreseeable future , it is more for his own deeds on the racecourse that Nijinsky will be remembered . |
| 5 | He did apply at the Academy for a place , but although his name is there in the archives for 1880 , whether he actually attended is a matter for conjecture . |
| 6 | But although his voice sounded cool and dismissive , his eyes , as he watched Simon cut down an alley between the shops , flamed bright with hostility . |
| 7 | ‘ Wait ! ’ she instructed him furiously as he turned and walked off , but although his steps slowed , he did n't stop , forcing her to follow if she wanted to be heard . |
| 8 | Joseph glanced at Ngo Van Loc , but although his knuckles were white on the steering wheel he made no comment , and nobody else spoke for the rest of the journey . |
| 9 | But although his mind was detached from day-to-day events it brooded a good deal on longer-term considerations . |
| 10 | On the same evening he had been admitted to hospital with heart trouble , but although his condition was reported to be good the next day , he did not withdraw his candidacy . |
| 11 | But if his history did not go down to 63 B.C. we must assume that he wrote a separate monograph on the wars of Pompey ; the difference is not great . |
| 12 | Naturally he has expressed a desire to see you , but if his wishes are to be fulfilled you must leave for France at once . |
| 13 | He made at least 5 million workers unhappy but if his actions make the unemployed happy because they now can get jobs , his bitter medicine will have been worthwhile . |
| 14 | But if his NES is to survive the lobbying in Congress , both he and the White House beast may need educating themselves . |
| 15 | The employee may appear eminently suitable for a particular post but if his wife is unwilling to relocate abroad and only agrees to do so grudgingly , this is bound to mar the employee 's likelihood of completing the assignment . |
| 16 | But if his reputation as one of the great Kings of French history is anything to go by , then the means he used were justified by the end , the destruction of the Angevin Empire . |
| 17 | But if his defence is that it was not his intention to cause fear of violence or to provoke its use , his conduct might still come within the ambit of the subsection by virtue of its latter part . |
| 18 | Eleven by-elections are unlikely in the next few months — but if his majority is whittled down to five or six , he may call another election before too long . |
| 19 | He is reluctant to preach , but if his lifestyle conveys anything , it is an emphatic witness to the importance of the things of the spirit ; a disclaimer of the acquisitive society . |
| 20 | By publishing research , the scientist is in fact giving away his intellectual property , but if his paper influences others , they , in citing it , will ensure the future security of the original author 's ownership of that intellectual property . |
| 21 | But if his empire fails this time it will join the record books as the largest business collapse in the world . |
| 22 | But if his belief about where the honey is is false , his action will fail : it wo n't get him what he wants . |
| 23 | Well , now he had gone to find her , but if his Eileen was really an angel she doubted they would meet , for Paddy had been no saint . |
| 24 | None has arrived but if his death took place as I saw the angel pass I would not hear from my sister Ellen for some time . |
| 25 | But if his aim is to justify as well as to interpret Marx 's theory , the point becomes more pressing . |
| 26 | Not because of any failure , but because his employers wanted to promote him from temporary to permanent status and this required checking his background . |
| 27 | But because his insurance brokers could not match up details from the other driver with her insurance company 's records , Michael lost his no-claims bonus . |
| 28 | The authorities said that Hong Song-dam was not imprisoned merely for sending his paintings to North Korea and books to Koreans in Germany , but because his paintings and contributions to a magazine Art Movement were aimed at promoting a Marxist-Leninist revolution . |
| 29 | They did not snub him because he is too right-wing , but because his government has been incompetent . |
| 30 | I quote him at length , not only because he has drawn attention to a hitherto neglected type of Earth Mysteries site , but because his experience so entirely accords with my own . |