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

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1 It goes as far as it can and waits there for a while , its big eyes staring up , tantalized .
2 We do not believe , however , that it goes as far as is necessary in embracing demand management and sustainability .
3 We do not believe , however , that it goes as far as is necessary in embracing demand management and sustainability .
4 If it gets as far as a decision , it will prove the leading case for some time on the thorny issue of what duty regulators owe the customers of the regulated .
5 It avoids so far as possible those terms of art which have acquired a special meaning understood only by lawyers in which many of the penal enactments which it supersedes were couched .
6 Certainly it does as far as the naked eye is concerned .
7 It extended as far as she could see in all directions .
8 The envoys — I do not know by what trickery they were deceived [ here Nithard bursts out into the first person ] — thus increased Lothar 's share of the regnum so that it extended as far as the Charbonnière . "
9 The fact that it spread as far as the Mycenaean chiefdoms of Greece has sometimes been regarded as surprising .
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