Example sentences of "have become a habit " in BNC.

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1 Disturbed sleep has become a habit that will not be broken at once .
2 Or I might suspect too much vehemence in his insistence that he loves gibbons , and suggest that he is deceiving himself , that visiting the animals has become a habit without much joy in it .
3 Today , his anti-Semitism has become a habit , a mechanical response , a focus for all his resentments : his poverty , his lack of formal education , his peripheral place in the world of music … .
4 Sometimes this obstinacy was the refuge of the poor man who can not afford change and to whom stagnation has become a habit of mind necessary for survival ; at other times it represented a sound rejection of improper techniques culled by ‘ philosophical ’ amateurs from the journals of French and English agricultural societies .
5 This technique seems to have become a habit and not just in the Guardian .
6 By that time his feelings of resentment against his mother were fixed for life , and the imaginative intensity with which he called up the Devon landscape as a lost Eden of content had become a habit of mind .
7 I went on following : it had become a habit .
8 Because the panic attacks had become a habit with her , I spent a few sessions with Eileen teaching her how to overcome them .
9 She had expected to spend that night with Edward and wake up beside him , the left-hand side , that had become a habit and it was a mistake , no doubt , to allow marriage to become a matter of habit , but that did n't prove that she was not a woman .
10 We had instilled in all of us a very strong sense of timing , which had to be to the second , and this had become a habit .
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