The phrase "acquired because of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that something was obtained or gained as a result of a specific reason or cause.
Example: "The land was acquired because of the need for expansion in the growing city."
Alternatives: "obtained due to" or "secured as a result of".
Through the city's Homeworks program, A & F bought, for nominal sums, 32 brownstones that the Department of Housing Preservation and Development had acquired because of tax defaults.
(i) Any non-employee who receives a demand for the production or disclosure of NACIC information acquired because of that person's association or contacts with NACIC should notify NACIC Counsel, (703) 874-4121, for guidance and assistance.
Bristol-Myers Squibb, Schering-Plough and Merck are the most likely to merge or to be acquired because of their vulnerability to expiring patents and generic competition, analysts said yesterday.
The properties will be repaired and marketed using existing city programs that have successfully disposed of 68,000 units of housing that the city acquired because of tax delinquency.
The NSA is empowered to retain data for up to five years and the policy states "communications which may be retained include electronic communications acquired because of limitations on the NSA's ability to filter communications".
The documents note that the private data of Americans that the N.S.A. can hold on to "include electronic communications acquired because of limitations on NSA'S ability to filter communications".
In complex coastal areas, field data and ecological evidence are very difficult to acquire because of the temporal variability in spatial patterns of all ecological conditions and biophysical drivers causing change.
You either have it or you don't, so it's not something you can develop over time or something you magically acquire because of your dedication to your job.
Images post-crush (especially at 2 weeks) are difficult to acquire because of the large inflammation in the vicinity of the lesion.
Unfortunately, these data are more difficult to acquire because of technical issues in finding and capturing, by video-microscopy, sporozoites inoculated by a probing mosquito.
We disregarded the possibility that the CNVs were somatically acquired because none of the results were suggestive of mosaicism.
