Example sentences of "[vb base] weigh up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Potential employers , for example , have to weigh up the possibilities of employing mentally handicapped people ; schoolteachers and heads may have to accommodate handicapped children in normal schools ; members of a jury may have to pass verdict on a mildly handicapped person . |
| 3 | We have to weigh up the merits of medical assistance and of leaving Nature to take its course . |
| 4 | Any proposed alterations to a health care system have to weigh up the obligation of society to those who are old and sick against the preferences of those who wish to determine their own health care provision . |
| 5 | Clearly , borrowers have to weigh up the pros and cons of each mortgage offer — greater flexibility in one area of the lending terms is likely to be balanced by restrictive conditions in another area . |
| 6 | In the final analysis , organizations have to weigh up the anticipated benefits of particular media against the costs involved . |
| 7 | Here again organizations have to weigh up the relative gains of this approach against the extra costs . |
| 8 | You have to weigh up the pros and cons . |