Example sentences of "[noun] none the " in BNC.

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1 The voice was silk , but it chilled Harry 's blood none the less .
2 He also found service with Peter des Roches , bishop of Winchester [ q.v. ] , a leading political rival of Langton and Poer , whom Elias none the less assisted with the foundation of monastic houses in Selborne and Titchfield , and for whom he subsequently acted as executor .
3 The steel control remained in force ( apart from a brief interval from June 1950 to February 1951 when shortages none the less remained ) until May 1953 ; building controls lasted into 1954 .
4 In fact , as he later admitted in court , he had been represented by a lawyer from Newcastle at the time of signing to Virgin : not a music-business lawyer , it was true , but a lawyer none the less .
5 Female and male hierarchies none the less differ in important ways that seem to be consequences of the contrasting strategies by which the two sexes seek to maximize their inclusive fitness .
6 Mrs Webster , though not entirely sure that they were unnecessarily worried , pitied their anxiety none the less .
7 But they set out for the Town Hall none the less .
8 She was impeccably dressed , and on a stiflingly hot day still managed to look coolly coiffured , every hair in place , her make-up none the worse for the heat .
9 Although publicly scathing about the student left and the anti-Vietnam movement , Healy none the less cultivated a discussion circle of London writers , actors and television producers , it is said with some charm and intellectual force , which was to presage his fixation with Equity , the actors ' Union which increasingly provided personnel and finance for the ERP .
10 The University none the less is carefully reviewing this matter , given the possibility of financial penalties by HEFCE in respect of recently lengthened courses and the proposals in the White Paper on the funding of science for the establishment of one-year taught graduate courses as the common precursor to the undertaking of the D.Phil .
11 The key function none the less lies in the drawing up of the legislation ; deciding what should go into a bill and what should be omitted , and how the proposals should be drafted .
12 Recognizing that in this instance her son would use any means to persuade her to change her mind , Elizabeth Woodville none the less gave thought to the suggestion .
13 In the cases of indirect wording , for example , the testator had not stated that he intended X to be a trustee for Y. None the less he had made his intention that there should be a legal relationship between them plain , and the jurists validated the disposition by construing it as a trust .
14 Not quite the supremacy of the self-made man that the party liked to pretend , but a distinct shift none the less .
15 Workers are chronically prone to money illusion : if prices rise in the same proportion to the rise in the money wage , leaving the real wage rate unchanged , workers none the less supply more labour .
16 Schiller none the less continued his research and provoked controversy by his estimate that , by the mid-1950s , though space heating sales had fallen to only a fifth of domestic sales , they still accounted for some three-fifths of the peak : significantly more than the BEA had ever publicly admitted .
17 This is because in England there is no statute or code setting out the law governing the continuing care of the terminally ill ; nor are there more than a handful of cases that have been decided by the courts.l None the less , legal principles undoubtedly do exist and obviously condition the choices made by doctors .
18 We did n't have interviews , but a young person had to ‘ gain' a place none the less , as we had criteria for entry onto the course .
19 The figures that I am about to present to the House will embarrass the Leader of the House , but I shall get them on the record none the less .
20 ‘ I 'm not stopping , ’ he told her quickly , entering her sitting-room none the less and , at her suggestion taking a seat .
21 Fouché is basically a policeman : a corrupt , meddling , political sort of policeman it 's true , but a policeman none the less .
22 Ever so faintly , but it was a smile none the less .
23 Unlike Elena , Barbara speaks very little English , but she conveys her pride none the less .
24 Although not as devastated as Gunnerside by the effects of mining , this end of the dale none the less has its scars and wounds .
25 None of these difficulties are likely to trouble us much in daily life , but they remain genuine difficulties none the less and raise issues of fundamental importance ; for if there can be no absolutely reliable and unequivocal criteria for deciding whether any given existent remains numerically , and not merely qualitatively , the same from one moment in time to the next , then we can not hope to be able to " define " the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity in terms of the criteria of particular-identification .
26 Some members of management committees none the less throw themselves into their new role with enthusiasm .
27 I did not take it personally , but I thank my hon. Friend none the less .
28 It was , indeed , only when their conversation seemed to be moving towards a close , with Derek none the wiser about why it had taken place , that Golding began to apply a steely edge to his questions .
29 While the younger members of the family are treated by the British press and public as stock characters in some soap opera , when one of them speaks , on architecture , AIDS or literacy , the news media none the less report their comments seriously .
30 If the heir has sold an object under trust , and a person with knowledge [ of the trust ] has bought it , the beneficiary none the less rightly requests to be put in possession of it .
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