Example sentences of "weigh up the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously they can not weigh up the comparative cost of some type of credit which is beyond their ken . |
| 2 | Tonight 's AGM will weigh up the relative merits of two businessmen , John Kerr and Robert Fleeting , to assume control at Rugby Park . |
| 3 | Alice had said : ‘ It 's a pity your husband did n't leave him to drown and save himself , but I suppose that on the spur of the moment he did n't weigh up the relative value of a useful teaching career and pimpled stupidity . ’ |
| 4 | In the final analysis , organizations have to weigh up the anticipated benefits of particular media against the costs involved . |
| 5 | If we try to weigh up the two sets of complaints , bearing in mind the greater need of the people in the Exodus passage , we might say that honours , or dishonours , are about even . |
| 6 | Here again organizations have to weigh up the relative gains of this approach against the extra costs . |
| 7 | Emma Pearce explores the creative options offered by oils , and weighs up the latest products on the market . |
| 8 | Emma Pearce explores the creative options offered by oils , and weighs up the latest products on the market . |
| 9 | The point is that preference rules give a justification for choosing any well-formed grouping structure which the circumstances of the text seem to warrant ; they provide a guide to weighing up the various claims of syntax , informational focus , prosodic shape and so on . |
| 10 | And the Government is likely to spend the Christmas break weighing up the political options before deciding what to do next . |
| 11 | Critics have argued that QALY theory is attractive as long as we are considering one person who is weighing up the likely outcomes with different treatments . |
| 12 | ‘ It is essential that all decisions are made with the child 's best interests at heart and agencies must perform a careful balancing act , weighing up the known disadvantages of a smoking environment with the positive qualities a particular family has to offer , ’ said Marion Miles , chairwoman of BAAF 's medical group . |
| 13 | They had entered into complex calculations , weighing up the potential loss of both short- and long-term benefits against the extra cash in their pay packets and had decided to maximise their already low pay at the time they most needed it . |