Example sentences of "however [adv] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , it means that whatever other people 's attitude to teachers may be , Christians are expected to love them , because however successfully they manage to hide it , all teachers are human and therefore designed by God to carry his likeness . |
| 2 | His subsequent actions in office , however little they may have done to encourage serious Catholic commitment to the Ulster state , were enough to confirm the conservative Protestant suspicion that O'Neill was another Lundy , prepared to follow the original by opening the gates of unionist Ulster 's walls to the disloyal Catholics and the Irish Republic . |
| 3 | Dictionaries have authority for most speakers , however little they may deserve it . |
| 4 | But the main difficulty was that if compensation were paid out on this ‘ once for all ’ basis , ‘ it would be exceedingly difficult for any future government ever to make radical changes in the financial provisions , however badly they were working . |
| 5 | Despite the atomising tendency of fundamental physics , with its motto " divide and rule " , we have found that the EPR experiment points to a surprisingly integrationist view of the relationship of systems which have once interacted with each other , however widely they may subsequently separate . |
| 6 | But the conservatives , however right they were — and we have lost nearly all our privacy and silence since they wrote — lost all along the line . |
| 7 | Almost all modern economists , however much they might resist such classification , are drawn to one of two camps . |
| 8 | Many suffer from the liberal philosophy they remember from the '60s and do n't want to sort out their priorities on their own — however much they assure you they can . |
| 9 | This inevitably led to a sense of frustration both in pupils and their teachers ; for it seemed that however well taught they were , however much they learned , it was inevitable that a high proportion of candidates would get low or unclassified grades . |
| 10 | Their children have grown up , perhaps left home and , however much they may love their parents , they no longer need them in the same way . |
| 11 | In a way this too is made true by The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings combined ; for the latter predicts that some elves will refuse to leave Middle-earth , however much they may ‘ dwindle ’ , while the former shows that others remain in Valinor , once part of the Earth , though now in some mysterious way sundered from it . |
| 12 | How I would love to be proved wrong by any one of them but parents and boys deserve my honest opinion , however much they may hate me for it . |
| 13 | But , in March 1120 , the monks of St Augustine 's obtained a papal privilege allowing them to ring their bells to their hearts ' content , however much they annoyed their neighbours over the wall ; more to the point , this privilege quoted four papal privileges of the seventh to tenth centuries , all of them forgeries and one of them a forgery either derived from , or the source of , the very privilege of Pope Boniface IV which Alexander II had quoted to Lanfranc in 1070 . |
| 14 | Parents , on the other hand , however much they have suffered at school , or even if they left it with a sense of failure , usually attribute the shortcomings to themselves rather than to the system , and thus find it difficult to envisage school in any form other than the one that they themselves experienced . |
| 15 | One answer to this could be that articulate Europeans , however much they differed , were formed by a common educational heritage and thought of themselves as Europeans when they looked at the rest of the world . |
| 16 | But however much they scrubbed to erase the past , the slate could never be entirely cleansed . |
| 17 | But however much they vary , the symbolic division of the world by gender appears to be a constant and fundamental way of articulating experience . |
| 18 | " However much they earn seems to make no difference . |
| 19 | The problem is that on his own terms ‘ many ’ may conclude quite the reverse , however much they share his view of the Iraqi regime . |
| 20 | However much they may have disliked such labels they were unavoidable as the dramatic jump in their lifestyle was to have an equally powerful , and highly visible , effect on the company . |
| 21 | The four-part chansons which poured from Attaingnant 's press from 1528 to 1550 — Clement Marot ( 1496–1544 ) his favourite poet , Sermisy his favourite composer ( though he devoted one of his earliest volumes solely to Janequin ) — still have so much in common with the frottola and kindred Italian popular forms , however much they sophisticated them , that their Italian ancestry hardly needs a birth-certificate . |
| 22 | From this perspective , electoral politics were only one aspect of the struggle , and the parliamentary leaders were considered subordinate to the leadership of the mass party , which was at the same time the leadership of the class itself Conservative and liberal parties , however much they in fact represented class interests , saw themselves as parties functioning within an established social order and a system of political institutions in which parliament was supreme . |
| 23 | Neither I nor my colleagues are afraid of the hon. Member for Carrick , Cumnock and Doon Valley ( Mr. Foulkes ) or his hon. Friends who represent Ayrshire , however much they may frighten each other . |
| 24 | Well , in sum , I do not lay hands on my staff , however much they attract me . |
| 25 | Yes , he reminded her of a stuffy headmaster she had once had , someone who found fault with everyone , however much they tried . |
| 26 | ‘ Listen — here , she 's condemned out of her own mouth — going up the stairs after dinner : ‘ They would , [ Mrs Ramsay ] thought , going on again , however long they lived , come back to this night ; to this moon ; this wind ; this house ; and to her too . |
| 27 | It flattered her , where she was most susceptible of flattery , to think how , wound about in their hearts , however long they lived she would be woven — ’ See ? |
| 28 | However long they had been in Wimbledon , the suburb had not yet managed to curb their enthusiasm . |
| 29 | Some people can take or leave cigarettes just as they can take Or leave an alcoholic drink — Others find that however hard they try to stop smoking and however much they may be aware of the damaging consequences of continuing to do so , they simply can not stop but find themselves compelled to continue . |
| 30 | The rooms at the back were of course dark and pokey and the cupboards had a strange sickening shut-up smell that remained however much they aired them . |