The phrase "a propensity for doing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a natural inclination or tendency to engage in a particular action or behavior.
Example: "She has a propensity for doing volunteer work in her community, always looking for ways to help others."
Alternatives: "a tendency to do" or "an inclination for doing".
"There is evidence, again evidence -- not yet decided," Mr. Giuliani said, "that he engaged in an assault, that he engaged in the activity that caused the shooting and that he had up until a week or a week and half ago indicated a strong propensity for doing that, including punching his girlfriend in the face" as she held their 3-year-old child.
I often think that there are some people who are born without one layer of skin; who have a propensity for pain, who don't deal with life in a resilient way.
Do developing circuits acquire a propensity for exuberant connectivities, or do they try and maintain a homeostasis in their connections and therefore make compensatory changes in the number of synapses with their normal partners?
Nair said he did not think Pistorius was a flight risk, he did not think the prosecution had shown that the athlete had a propensity for violence and he did not think there was evidence of likely public outrage if Pistorius was released.
Dark-haired and compactly built, Mr. Poots has a propensity for making long "to do" lists in a notebook.
Cumulatively they reveal secret passions, a myriad disappointments and a propensity for infidelity that will do nothing to alter the perception – right or wrong – that the French are a nation of philanderers.
I don't think Benitez is a good manager, he's been out of work for two years now - if he was any good why hasn't any other club snapped him up? "Benitez has a propensity for zonal marking, which doesn't work in the Premier League.
In this case, parents had a propensity for what had been done with them when they were younger, or for what was socially prescribed in their original culture.
These were her (for 88% of participants were women) initial body-mass index (BMI a rough measure of how overweight she was); how many times she weighed herself; and how many friends she had within the network.A higher starting BMI predicted a bigger weight loss, as did a propensity for frequent weigh-ins.
Many turtle species do show a propensity for homosexuality in a single-sex environment.
