Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] as [adv] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 In reaching 24 processor configurations , Pyramid says it has gone as far as it can with the R3000 .
2 Harvest usually takes place in mid-October , although in extreme cases it has commenced as early as August and as late as November .
3 The governing body insists leagues will start next September , but it wants to delay as long as possible any decision about what to do with the Merit teams .
4 I put it to Andy that it must have been a blow when they split in 1988 , but he , ever the voice of reason , says , ‘ There was no point in trying to keep them together , it had gone as far as they wanted it to go and they wanted to do something different .
5 It had vanished as surely as the name of her village had been erased from the map of Israel .
6 It had vanished as silently as if it had been only a figment of her imagination .
7 Western Turkey and Sicily were initially affected , but by 1348 it had spread as far as Spain and Morocco .
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