Complex sentence: This may also have been done as a check on the power of the Eight Regents, however there is no evidence for this, and it is unlikely he would have ever intended for Noble Consort Yi to have any political power.
Split into simpler sentences: This may also have been done as a check on the power of the Eight Regents. There is no evidence for this incident, however, and it is unlikely that the emperor ever would have intended the Noble Consort Yi to wield political power.