Example sentences of "weigh up the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before initiating an incident , you weighed up the pros and cons of the costs in time . |
| 2 | I weighed up the pros and cons of doing it , and there were no other pros other than it might be fun . ’ |
| 3 | Eventually , the young officer weighed up the pros and contras and made the correct decision , for him and for yours truly , by delivering us to our front door . |
| 4 | And they put all those factors together and they weighed up the alternatives and you 've heard some of them already . |
| 5 | Lucier stood up , with his hand spread across his breastbone as if to protect his heart from the jolt , and weighed up the possibilities of escape . |
| 6 | But yesterday Coun Frank Robson ( Lab ) , who represents Lingfield Ward , said : ‘ I think we should weigh up the advantages and disadvantages of having a hospital on an industrial estate . |
| 7 | Thus , all borrowers must carefully weigh up the benefits and potential costs of using foreign currency loans , as opposed to domestic currency loans , to finance trade , investment and public expenditure . |
| 8 | But I do know they would weigh up the dangers and think about the very fact that they could fly . |
| 9 | Only rational beings can weigh up the merits of competing claims for attention , be they those of moral patients or other moral agents . |
| 10 | Is it the magic word ‘ organic ’ which appears alongside the higher price tag that triggers this Pavlovian response , or do we weigh up the pros and cons of organic versus inorganic produce before we buy ? |
| 11 | The Government must weigh up the needs of vital areas like job training , social security benefits , hospital building and the changeover to the council tax . |
| 12 | It could only be left to each Group Organiser to weigh up the pros and cons of the situation . |
| 13 | Indeed as friend , colleague or relation , the listener has a choice of responses which were not available to her had the task merely instructed her to listen : she could , for instance , adopt a cool intellectual probing , helping the talker to weigh up the pros and cons , or she could set up emotional resistance to the idea . |
| 14 | If necessary use the decision-making exercise to weigh up the pros and cons of closely competing options as described previously . |
| 15 | Graham looked round sharply and was about to shake his head when he paused to weigh up the pros and cons of the situation . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | You have to weigh up the pros and cons . |
| 18 | They were people with connections , interests , obligations and they had to weigh up the advantages and disadvantages and to take other people and other possible futures into account . |
| 19 | They will be able to weigh up the advantages of breaking a law and not doing so ; and they will tend to choose the former path if it seems likely to secure economic and career advancement . |
| 20 | This period balances the interest of the offeror to know as soon as possible the number of shareholders willing to accept its offer together with the amount of finance that it requires ; the interest of the target company not to have its business disrupted for too long ; and the interests of the shareholders in the target company to weigh up the merits of the bid . |
| 21 | We have to weigh up the merits of medical assistance and of leaving Nature to take its course . |
| 22 | For example in studying the Peasants ' Revolt of 1381 the analysis of the causes is further refined by their division into long-term causes and short-term causes : To encourage the analysis of evidence pupils must be asked to weigh up the sources which may contradict one another . |
| 23 | She needed more time — time to think , time to weigh up the consequences . |
| 24 | It 's impossible to generalise and it 's up to each farmer to weigh up the options which suit him best . |
| 25 | CCTV had to weigh up the demands for the series to be repeated with the views expressed by some Party members that ‘ Heshang ’ was subversive and dangerous . |
| 26 | The Bosnia Aid Committee of Oxford has to weigh up the risks and the costs of each convoy . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Mr Clarke has to weigh up the strains which would be caused in our nation by admitting more refugees . |
| 29 | While not everyone welcomed the regime with open arms , it is opportune to reflect on its effectiveness and to weigh up the costs and benefits of regulation of the profession by the profession . |
| 30 | An inquiry into British energy should be undertaken to weigh up the arguments and to give the UK a national strategy for the years to 2012 and beyond . ’ |