Example sentences of "[to-vb] acquired a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Busti , who completed the reliefs in the early sixteenth-century , was known as Il Bambaia , another to have acquired a curiously Milanese nickname . |
| 2 | Jordi Savall seems to have acquired a habit of strewing gold wherever he treads , and these performances buoy his reputation still further . |
| 3 | Girish Naik , UK marketing manager for business communications with DEC , says that Ericsson 's use of HostBridge illustrates a requirement typical of many large organisations , which are likely to have acquired a mishmash of software and hardware over the years . |
| 4 | The substance of much present-day Western analysis consists of frictions between contending interests and élites , accommodations , bargains and rear guard actions : a political set-up in which the Armed Forces General Staff , with its prestige and professional competence , is seen to have acquired a firm foothold . |
| 5 | You suggest , in effect , that for some reason it is justifiable for boat owners who , after all , must have some financial resources to have acquired a permanent mooring in the first place , to be supported by ordinary countrywide residents , many of whom genuinely have little or no financial resources and who could not care less about a handful of sailors . |
| 6 | So , around the middle years of the nineteenth century , Britain was seen to have acquired a new liberal constitution — that is a constitution of limited public participation where there was an executive which was responsible to a directly elected parliamentary assembly and which had taken few powers to intervene in economy and society . |
| 7 | The library is fortunate to have acquired a text book concerned with the details of a ) perfusing the tissues with agents to minimize freezing injury and b ) transporting to minimize the interruption of circulation and respiration after cardiac and respiratory arrest . |
| 8 | She seemed to have acquired a lot of peculiarities herself . |
| 9 | She seems to have acquired a second wind . |
| 10 | The ball seemed to have acquired a life of its own . |
| 11 | ( 2 ) Any person claiming to have acquired a title under the Limitation Acts to a registered estate in the land may apply to be registered as proprietor thereof . |
| 12 | In the wake of the 1848 revolutions St Petersburg appeared to have acquired a larger say in the affairs of central Europe than it had possessed for a generation . |
| 13 | ‘ And no doubt to have acquired a few personal commitments . ’ |