Example sentences of "[was/were] none the less " in BNC.
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| 1 | When there were no Red Cross parcels at all you began to notice that people sized up the rations of margarine before they helped themselves , and though you despised them for it you were none the less sharp to do it yourself . |
| 2 | The final section shows how Sri Lankans were none the less able to use the courts as a legitimate and acceptable , if sometimes disreputable , way to solve disputes . |
| 3 | While the Labour Government were anxious to preserve an image of political fairness and reasonable salary flexibility in order to attract the technocratic skills that they recognised were essential for success , they were none the less clear that the public corporations should not simply be the old gang operating ‘ business as usual ’ . |
| 4 | The financial constraints were initially rather phantom-like ( in the first year , for example , there was prolonged and somewhat inconclusive discussion with the Ministry about the budget and it was not finally authorised until the financial year was over ! ) , but the physical constraints were none the less effective in limiting the industry 's expenditure . |
| 5 | There were none the less growing pressures on the BEA to discipline their own requests for capital through the achievement of a higher rate of return on capital , and higher rates of self-financing , both of which conformed to the Conservative Government 's image of efficient private enterprise industry and ‘ commercial ’ disciplines . |
| 6 | Some of these claims , spread energetically by certain leading military men , were almost certainly exaggerated , but they were none the less serious . |
| 7 | Ostensibly ‘ in favour of perestroika ’ and incorporating many party members within their ranks , the new movements were none the less associated with a policy stance which went very much further than the party conference resolution . |
| 8 | His private newsletters were none the less still fuller and became celebrated . |
| 9 | There were none the less in the later eighteenth century a number of rulers and ministers in Europe who were prepared to break radically with the past , to override vested interests and disregard deep-rooted traditions in the interests of the States they ruled . |
| 10 | The outcome was none the less a climbdown for the government , which was obliged to drop its original plan to outlaw strikes in all sectors of industry for 15 months , amid deep divisions among parliamentarians over the extent of the powers to be granted . |
| 11 | Though she was a performer of indisputable talent , one was none the less left with a nagging impression that overarching each of her individual characteristics was another role , one she played to the hilt : that of the grande dame , the First Lady of the American cinema , the Duse of the double-feature . |
| 12 | The ‘ image ’ of C. S. Lewis , which many were to find rebarbative , was not , as they imagined , stage-managed or rehearsed , but it was none the less odd for that . |
| 13 | In some of these cases the defendant appeared mentally normal when examined by the doctor , but the doctor was none the less willing to infer from the circumstances that there had been abnormality of mind at the time of the killing , and to write a report which brought this within section 2 . |
| 14 | Pebbles was an outstanding racehorse , but the Breeders ' Cup bid was none the less a characteristically bold move on the part of trainer Clive Brittain , for the Turf race is over one and a half miles and she had never raced beyond ten furlongs . |
| 15 | The British tranche was none the less fully subscribed , but shares on sale in Europe were oversubscribed and those offered in New York could have been sold four times over . |
| 16 | While criticized by many on the grounds that it had few ‘ teeth ’ and represented a compromise between the DoE and all other departments ( notably those of Agriculture and of Transport ) , it was none the less a major achievement . |
| 17 | These conditions , difficult to sustain , led occasionally to a great deal of embarrassment , mixed always with a compensationary dose of fun and good humour , and sometimes followed by the communication of useful information which was none the less pleasant because of the piquancy incident to a little merriment and unexpected light of knowledge . ’ |
| 18 | It did seem a little hard that , just when things were beginning to go really well , the even tenor of their lives should be upset by the arrival of someone else — someone who , although a friend , was none the less a stranger . |
| 19 | It is argued that specific policies implemented at the outset of British rule led to the development of a judicial system which did not coincide with either British or indigenous notions of justice but which was none the less compatible with local culture . |
| 20 | The words were sharp but there was none the less warmth in the queen-dowager 's voice . |
| 21 | Not greatly favoured by Edward the Fourth and his family , the royal palace was none the less fully maintained and adequately staffed — a number of privileged persons residing there permanently in grace-and-favour apartments . |
| 22 | It was none the less a moment of grave concern to unbelievers of any reliable militancy . |
| 23 | But while it was certainly true that there were precedents for government policy towards the church in the 1530s , and that earlier monarchs had acted on the assumption that they had no superior within their realm , the Henrician supremacy was none the less unquestionably revolutionary . |
| 24 | The immediate appointment of Protestant ministers and the introduction of a Supremacy Bill in the 1559 parliament was therefore widely predicted , but despite Elizabeth 's concession in changing her title from ‘ Supreme Head ’ to ‘ Supreme Governor ’ , the move was none the less fiercely contested by the Marian bishops in the House of Lords . |
| 25 | Granting evils in the slave trade and colonial slavery it was none the less argued that government could more easily influence planters and traders through better regulation than they could control the situation on the West African coast . |
| 26 | In his own Board , Melling was none the less able to pursue an off-peak pricing policy , despite criticism from the other chairmen that he was breaking the common front against Ministry interference on pricing . |
| 27 | It was well-staged and well-sung ; and even if one had to put up with such seed pearls of wisdom as ‘ Beauty is in a lover 's eyes ’ , it was none the less a serious attempt to deal with the implications of the legend . |
| 28 | If , at least for some years afterwards , there was no real war , there was none the less plenty of tension in south-western France . |
| 29 | At a time when neither the French army nor fiscal arrangements to meet its needs had been sufficiently developed to respond to a new military situation , the only possible response was none the less to call traditional forces together to form an army with which to intercept and , it was hoped , to defeat the English . |
| 30 | To find an English ancestor it was necessary to go a long way back in Richard 's genealogy — to one of his great-grandmothers , Edith , the wife of King Henry I. This English link , slight as it was , was none the less well known to the men who frequented the princely courts of Europe , for in their world family connection was all-important . |