Example sentences of "[noun pl] have a habit " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , the guards have a habit of touching the women . |
| 2 | On catching sight of me she threw up her head , and as I was not looking in her direction she stood stock still , as these animals have a habit of doing when they are under the impression that they have not been seen . |
| 3 | These North-east derbies have a habit of being decided by a single goal . |
| 4 | CodeMasters have a habit of producing great games with the stars going on to bigger and better things ( look at Dizzy , CJ and Seymour ) . |
| 5 | Skeletons have a habit of breaking out of closets , do n't they ? |
| 6 | Troubles have a habit of being compounded . |
| 7 | It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers , but the plain fact of the matter was that the disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists ' houses and smashing their windows . |
| 8 | These things have a habit of snowballing one way and another . ’ |
| 9 | This was required as the bandits had a habit of using unexploded ordnance against Commonwealth forces . |
| 10 | Myths have a habit of ignoring the truth . |
| 11 | Melanochromis females have a habit of changing their coloration to resemble that of the male . |
| 12 | It 's a cynical view , he admits , but if there are few casualties , people will tolerate such action , without condoning it , even though ‘ Americans have a habit of being very clumsy , as in Grenada ’ . |
| 13 | Yesterday 's public enemies and villains have a habit of becoming present-day cult figures . |
| 14 | Small-time south London villains have a habit of getting above themselves and they usually come a cropper when they tangle with the East End families or the heavy mobs dealing in drugs . |
| 15 | Forty tiny fingers could wreak havoc if let loose , for they know from experience that their 4-year-old quads have a habit of hiding the prettiest ribbons and baubles . |
| 16 | We have er us humans have a habit of looking where we |
| 17 | I think that , as children have a habit of doing , British social anthropologists and many of their French , Belgian and American colleagues rebelled against their colonial ‘ parents ’ . |
| 18 | The fishermen and their children have a habit of holding fish between their teeth to prevent their escape while searching for another . |
| 19 | Legends have a habit of springing up . ’ |
| 20 | The birds had a habit of dipping their beaks in the water and then shaking their heads so that the ivory-coloured beaks flashed in the sun . |
| 21 | The letter though … anonymous letters had a habit of turning very nasty . |
| 22 | In any case , when the Prime Minister supports a colleague in the way Mellor 's friend John Major has done , ministers have a habit of falling into line . |
| 23 | Transportation systems have a habit of being overtaken by new technology even as they reach their apogee . |
| 24 | Memos and letters have a habit of being decorated with dozens of fonts or cute little pieces of artwork . |
| 25 | BRIGHT economic schemes have a habit of not working in South America . |
| 26 | Universities do try to collect statistics , but students have a habit of ‘ disappearing ’ after they have severed their university ties . |
| 27 | The top chasers have a habit of being able to give weight and a beating to their more humble rivals and although Barnbrook Again appears to have been given a stiff task in conceding 8lb to Rusch de Farges , his two runs already this season should give him the advantage . |
| 28 | ‘ But plans have a habit of coming unstuck . ’ |
| 29 | Until now my only objection to living in a water-mill had been a conviction that it was bound to be dark , water-mills having a habit of being in valleys , Nigel explained , but it was wonderfully light up there , with two large , deep-set windows . |
| 30 | But it did steal up on us , in the way eras have a habit of doing , some time in the late Sixties and early Seventies . |