1.   Before long, the firm acquired a reputation as a top provider of programming and debugging services.

2.   How was it, then, that Masailand acquired its reputation for corrupting those sent to rule over it?

3.   Labour today is rather like a car company whose models have acquired a reputation for unreliability.

4.   Many inner cities have acquired reputations for violent crime.

5.   People will acquire reputations on how well-trained their computers are and how well-groomed their computational ecology is.

6.   The college acquired a reputation for very high standards.

7.   The elaborately staged conferences have acquired a reputation for issuing high-sounding communiques urging remedial economic or monetary action.

8.   Transcendental Meditation has never acquired the reputation of a sinister cult, but doubts are sometimes voiced about it.

9.   We have acquired a reputation as the dumping ground with lightning speed.