Can such numbers be explained by mere force of habit?

She was not likely to appear from the mere force of his looking.

The mere force of my knock had pushed it open.

They run at their material with too much brash confidence, as if they could master it by mere force.

They stayed in the game in the third quarter by mere force inside.

No, this time there's nothing much can be done with mere brute force.

For mere force, violence in the abstract, is the enemy of anything we love.

By mere force of change they yet are able to afford lively gratification.

Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact.

It's remarkable what mere force of grip there is in these hands.