Example sentences of "such force [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ Agon ’ having demonstrated with such force that the core of the rite is not glorious but hideous , there is no point in continuing with the play . |
| 2 | Similar motives prompted the FA to ban an Arsenal player , Paul Davis , for nine matches last season after a TV news camera had spotted him punching Glenn Cockerill behind the referee 's back with such force that the Southampton player 's jaw was broken . |
| 3 | Seth flew forty miles an hour face first into the piling with such force that he uprooted the eight telephone poles . |
| 4 | Barking ferociously , the big Great Dane rushed from the rear of the house , skidded around the corner and hurled herself at the gate with such force that it creaked under the impact . |
| 5 | It connected with such force that it cut Mr Major 's right cheek , splattered his glasses and dribbled down his dark blue suit . |
| 6 | The young woman lay across the floor of her spotless kitchen , her skull smashed with such force that the brain was exposed . |
| 7 | ‘ So the dagger , or whatever , was stuck in with such force that the guard caused these bruises . |
| 8 | As a result of nail sickness , the heavy Westmorland slates were regularly coming loose and crashing down with such force that they sliced through the lead gutters below . |
| 9 | Talk turns to the night before when we were woken as the convoy hit a sandbank with such force that the steel cables holding it together were torn loose . |
| 10 | The ladle hit the stew with such force that the liquid splashed onto the white tablecloth , and , almost stuttering now , Alice cried , ‘ What a thing to say ! |
| 11 | She shot forward with such force that , lacking stirrups to support me , I slid off sideways . |
| 12 | Although Jack was taller , Ho hit him with such force that soon Jack fell away from him and he sprang out . |
| 13 | gear with my forehead with such force that my goggles , which I was wearing luckily , were shattered and my face badly bruised and bleeding profusely . |
| 14 | So angry was he with her that he flung a handful of the stars after her , and they fell to earth with such force that they formed a row of waterholes across the country . |
| 15 | As he fell , John Taylor , 48 , banged his head with such force that the noise was heard by people further along the street . |
| 16 | Modernity understood as the modern world in crisis has now hit us with such force that writers of many different political persuasions are addressing the issue ( cf. |
| 17 | Radical sects like the Quakers , the Shakers and the Methodists all encouraged the faithful to feel the divine in tangible forms ; some Pentecostal sects would speak in tongues , hear voices or experience powerful feelings which came upon them with such force that they were believed to come from God . |
| 18 | I knew that if the handle moved faster it would sound better , so I really exerted every ounce of my miserable muscle power and the handle jerked forward with such force that I was lifted clean off the ground . |
| 19 | The auburn-haired equestrienne delivered herself of a pithy speech , gave the young man , now scarlet beneath his whiskers , no chance to reply , put out a hand and thrust him physically aside with such force that he staggered back and bounced off the door of Woolworth 's behind him , and strode on . |
| 20 | Then they were both laughing , and the little woman , coming up and slapping Joe between the shoulders with such force that he coughed , said , ‘ Do n't look as if you are bein' confronted by a whale . |
| 21 | As peregrines have been known to dive at a speed of 180 miles an hour , they hit their prey with such force that they often break its neck , and sometimes even break the head clean off . |
| 22 | ‘ And in this case , ’ said Dr Barton , ‘ you struck a man with such force that he was killed . ’ |
| 23 | This time it caught Millie across the wrist , and when she reacted by rising from her seat in an effort to leave the room , she found herself thrust back with such force that her head bobbed on her shoulders . |
| 24 | In the World Cup quarter-final Skinner hit Cecillon with such force that the echo has barely died down around the Parc des Princes six months later . |
| 25 | The defendant struck with the knife into her throat on the left-hand side just near the jugular vein , with such force that it severed the spinal cord , causing almost instant paralysis . |
| 26 | The man 's face had turned black , his eyes were bulging , and at last he crashed to the ground , with such force that he almost shook Fleury off … but Fleury remained dragging on the violin until he was certain the sepoy was dead . |
| 27 | He brought his talons and beak down on the bars with such force that the very Cages themselves shook with the power of it . |
| 28 | His skill at hunting living prey increased each day until he could stoop on a hare from half a mile away , judging its path and speeding his attack so that he hit it with such force that it was dead before his talons fully closed on it . |
| 29 | When he released her it was with such force that she almost fell to the floor . |
| 30 | And then something was coughed out of that blackened spot with a sound like liquid choking ; coughed out from a hole where there was no hole , with such force that the jumbled shape landed with a slap on the corridor floor , five feet from the wall . |