Example sentences of "be balanced against the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That papers may be produced which could possibly lay the appellants open to further claims ( as to which I know nothing ) is a factor to take into account but it is only one factor to be balanced against the administrator 's reasonable requirements . |
| 2 | MOREOVER , individual examples of bias , such as the one I detected when Paddy Ashdown was allowed to get away with the ridiculous notion that he might do a deal with John Major just as easily as with Neil Kinnock , need to be balanced against the election coverage as a whole . |
| 3 | The propensity for errors to occur must be balanced against the necessity for both management and surveying staff to have a reasonable degree of trust in the analysed cost figures produced . |
| 4 | ‘ Free scope for market forces and commercial development ’ , Titmuss muses , ‘ must be balanced against the claims of the environment , and there was , surely , more environment round Rapstone Valley [ his country seat ] than almost anywhere else in the British Isles . ’ |
| 5 | However , the test of what is ‘ reasonably practicable ’ as opposed to ‘ practicable ’ , is not just whether the measures taken are financially or physically possible but the degree of risk must be balanced against the sacrifice involved . |
| 6 | Of course , for family companies , such tax planning may have to be balanced against the shareholders ' natural desire to have their money as soon as possible ! |
| 7 | So the need to record sufficient data to enable definite conclusions to be reached has to be balanced against the requirement to make the best use of staff time and resources . |
| 8 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that once the father had acquiesced in the removal of the children within the meaning of article 13 ( a ) , the court in the exercise of its discretion under that article was entitled to take into account the interests of the children even though there was no grave risk to them if they were returned to their place of residence within the meaning of article 13 ( b ) ; but that , under article 13 ( a ) , the children 's interests were not paramount and had to be balanced against the purpose of the Convention , which was the return of children wrongfully removed within the meaning of article 3 ; and that , accordingly , the judge had rightly considered the children 's interests when exercising her discretion under article 13 ( post , pp. 546G — 547E , F–G , 548G — 549A ) . |
| 9 | As your children get older you will probably want to encourage them towards a more unselfish view of the world by pointing out that their rights have to be balanced against the rights of others — and that includes their parents . |
| 10 | While natural parents may be inadequate , even neglectful and cruel , this has to be balanced against the unsuitability of state agencies to fulfil the parental role , particularly in the long term . |
| 11 | Hence the higher transaction costs of using outside suppliers have to be balanced against the dangers of under-utilization before a final decision is made about the scale of internal expansion . |
| 12 | However if significant additional capacity is needed then the potential benefits of software control must be balanced against the price of processor expansion . |
| 13 | The risk that the conference would enable German socialists to divert Allied socialists from their commitment to victory had to be balanced against the certainty that a refusal by Western socialists to respond to Russian calls for a new peace initiative would play into the hands of Bolshevik revolutionary defeatism . |
| 14 | The advantage of being able to store such a file on a direct access device in addresses which are directly related to the key then has to be balanced against the waste of space involved . |
| 15 | However , this has to be balanced against the saving of stamp duty which a Court Scheme can offer . |
| 16 | The water maze offers a number of advantages for the study of spatial learning in that within the tank the animal is quite unconstrained as to the direction it may take , though this must be balanced against the fact that the swimming task is somewhat stressful and the animal is learning how to reach a relatively precarious goal . |
| 17 | Electronic advances have to be balanced against the priority of maintaining the necessary level of acquisitions , for instance . |
| 18 | The need to encourage pupils to evaluate and select resources and information and to use indexes must be balanced against the number of selection stages with which the pupils can cope . |
| 19 | That extra purchase price , and the cost of the more frequent oil-change services a diesel car requires , have to be balanced against the savings in fuel likely to be made — currently around 195p per gallon . |