Example sentences of "[noun] have a habit " in BNC.
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| 1 | Money has a habit of going to de head |
| 2 | He had calculated , however , that he would need to give three poetry readings in order to cover his expenses on this visit : he did only the amount that was strictly necessary , since the Inland Revenue had a habit of taking much of any extra income he earned . |
| 3 | Conversations with Maisie had a habit of going astray like this . |
| 4 | Here , the guards have a habit of touching the women . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Probably not , even though the next couple of years will be tough and even though Mr Bishko has a habit of losing senior managers with an abandon bordering on carelessness . |
| 7 | Philosophy has a habit of creeping out of boudoirs , salons and the libraries of great houses and inspiring ( or beguiling ) the minds and aspirations of ordinary men and women . |
| 8 | Abuse has a habit of smacking you in the nose like that , for all to see . |
| 9 | As fate had a habit of doing , it had played what he termed a rather dirty trick for although Martin and his father before him had both found the running of the estate anything but easy as far as money was concerned , this young man would be better off than either of them , for Martin had only within the last year taken out two very large policies on his life , the second when he knew he was going to be married . |
| 10 | These North-east derbies have a habit of being decided by a single goal . |
| 11 | CodeMasters have a habit of producing great games with the stars going on to bigger and better things ( look at Dizzy , CJ and Seymour ) . |
| 12 | It was the way they put me on the right track that made me wonder — guiding angels in the Bible have a habit of appearing as two young men . |
| 13 | Skeletons have a habit of breaking out of closets , do n't they ? |
| 14 | Troubles have a habit of being compounded . |
| 15 | Reverse roundhouse kick has a habit of curling around the opponent 's guard ! |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Mary Worty had a habit of getting drunk and then getting into fights and her face was criss-crossed with cuts and she would get in the window of her bedroom , start giving the history of people all the way down and then they 'd all get out in crowds . |
| 18 | These things have a habit of snowballing one way and another . ’ |
| 19 | This is because the book trade has a habit of using terms less precisely than the bibliographer and collector . |
| 20 | Being England captain has a habit of refreshing the paranoias other jobs can not reach . |
| 21 | If a student has a habit of over-ruddering in turns , it is often worth showing him the effect on the stall of using even a slight amount of extra rudder in a gentle turn . |
| 22 | Bad news had a habit of springing ghastly surprises , the way that shattering news about her mother had sprung the cruellest surprise of all … the way her foolish idyll last night had been ruthlessly shattered this morning … |
| 23 | This was required as the bandits had a habit of using unexploded ordnance against Commonwealth forces . |
| 24 | ‘ You know , ’ he said , ‘ you people have a habit sometimes of coming here to Israel with some specific details and thinking that from them you can deduce some universal truth . |
| 25 | Myths have a habit of ignoring the truth . |
| 26 | ( Constanza has a habit of slipping it off and placing it on the table in front of her . |
| 27 | ‘ Life has a habit of changing the rules , ’ Peter shrugged . |
| 28 | As a practical man , the dairyman might laugh at love , but love has a habit of changing people 's lives . |
| 29 | Melanochromis females have a habit of changing their coloration to resemble that of the male . |
| 30 | 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 ’ . |