Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adv] acquired " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rank wanted to be sure of an international market for their newly acquired product . |
| 2 | He slotted one of his locally acquired S/M videos — ultra-hardcore , but he knew where to go for his supplies — into his television and settled back to enjoy himself . |
| 3 | And as the market process unfolds , with one period of market ignorance followed by another in which ignorance has been somewhat reduced , each buyer or seller revises his bids and offers in the light of his newly acquired knowledge of the alternative opportunities which those to whom he may wish to sell , or from whom he may wish to buy , can expect to find available elsewhere in the market . |
| 4 | When this has been achieved , the learner has reached a state of " infantilisation " , which is to say he retains all of his previously acquired knowledge but becomes more open , spontaneous , and creative . |
| 5 | The ambulance doors closed out the white face of my recently acquired 17-year-old husband . |
| 6 | Roger of Wendover says that the inhabitants of the disafforested districts made full use of their newly acquired liberties , by cutting and selling timber from their woods , making assarts and bringing suitable waste land into cultivation , and hunting the deer . |
| 7 | An East Lancashire Railway worker directs the giant grit blaster at the bunker of their newly acquired Jinty to remove rust . |
| 8 | Since the machine began to move towards the water as soon as they were inside , changing in its damp , smelly and retracted confines was none too easy , despite the lure of their newly acquired bathing costumes . |
| 9 | Brenda , her eyes suddenly alighting on a round milk stain on the table cloth , herself thought that breakfast was n't perhaps the most suitable time for a display of her recently acquired information about the investigation of rape . |
| 10 | Indeed , those employers that undertake training programmes stand the risk of having their workers with their newly acquired skills being poached by employers who undertake little or no training . |
| 11 | The three men set off again in the Sunbeam , touring the stores of Ruislip and Eastcote , making purchases with their newly acquired Barclaycard . |
| 12 | With their recently acquired wealth from the girls ' success , the Polgars have been able to buy an adjoining apartment to make one multi-roomed home . |
| 13 | Participants could , for example , attempt to make their attitudes consonant with their recently acquired knowledge only to find themselves unable to break from their established pattern of behaviour ( Festinger , 1957 ) . |
| 14 | He remained just long enough to save a substantial sum by the standards of Irish wealth and then came home with his newly acquired capital . |
| 15 | Once the programme was broadcast , the BBC received forty telephone calls and hundreds of letters poured into our recently acquired PO Box , many containing donations . |
| 16 | As we all hastily undressed , Geordie was happily acknowledging the cheers from his newly acquired fans who , judging by their enthusiasm , appreciated Geordie 's special features . |
| 17 | He must have learnt a great deal from Thomas May , and from him also acquired an enthusiasm for pottery , but he was quick to grasp the crucial principle that the changes in the form of some vessels was due to a chronological development , an idea that had eluded May , who never rose much above the level of that of ‘ an indefatigable draughtsman ’ , as his Antiquaries ' obituary rather dismissively calls him . |
| 18 | One of his red-letter days was the time we took him for his first ride in our newly acquired Rolls-Royce . |
| 19 | European pressure on the USA to extend its trade liberalization policy grew after reports on April 11 that some West German companies including the Volkswagen car manufacturing company had complained that COCOM regulations were preventing them from supplying machinery to their newly acquired factories in East Germany . |
| 20 | In the early 650s , however , Oswiu 's son , Ealhfrith , married Penda 's daughter , Cyneburh , after which Penda 's son , Peada , now ruler of the Middle Angles , requested in marriage Oswiu 's daughter , Ealhflaed , and received missionaries in her company , being urged to accept Christianity not least by his recently acquired brother-in-law , Ealhfrith ( HE III , 21 ) . |