Example sentences of "weighing up [art] " in BNC.

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1 PRESIDENT REAGAN is weighing up a report which would hand control of the US 's weather and remote-sensing satellites to private enterprise .
2 Thieves are experts in weighing up a house .
3 We understand Liverpool and Everton have jumped to the head of the queue and Liverpool are weighing up a 2 million-plus bid .
4 MANCHESTER CITY are weighing up a £1 million bid for Dutch forward Eric Viscaal , 24 , of top Belgian side Ghent .
5 And now societies still interested in the conversion possibility will be carefully weighing up the reception given to the Guardian scheme compared with Abbey 's .
6 Many clutched a commuters ' breakfast of buttered bun and polystyrene cup of coffee , weighing up the dilemma of being late for work against the lure of easy money .
7 Weighing up the neutrino
8 Biff eyed the bottle , weighing up the consequences .
9 Weighing up the competition is an important part of marketing .
10 This underlines the importance — before you decide to treat yourself as constructively dismissed and leave your job — of weighing up the pros and cons of so doing .
11 weighing up the evidence
12 Weighing up the Costs
13 And the Government is likely to spend the Christmas break weighing up the political options before deciding what to do next .
14 However , the repetitive nature of this type of credit is in itself a barrier against its users weighing up the advantages of credit which does not involve weekly collection — and perhaps against them considering cash as an alternative .
15 But it is a matter of realistically weighing up the pros and cons .
16 Knowing what to choose , assessing one policy against another , weighing up the risk factor as well as trying to estimate what this will mean in terms of your standard of living after you retire could be a bit of a gamble even for a financial expert .
17 Even if you can not reach any gardens or nurseries to see roses in action and have to rely on catalogues and lists , there is a great deal of enjoyment to be derived from weighing up the pros and cons and in the anticipation of the pleasures to come , just like choosing a holiday from the glossy brochures .
18 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 .
19 Some means of weighing up the costs and benefits of such an approach is therefore capable of being employed .
20 Weighing up the pros and cons of open systems is not easy and some information technology departments , are ill-equipped to do the job .
21 While weighing up the merits of the posts of legal advisor to the Girls Public Day School Trust versus running a legal advice centre in a South London Mental Hospital , she was invited to sit as a Judge on the South-East Circuit and then , of course , her mind was made up .
22 She looked at him for a moment as if weighing up the consequences of telling the truth for once .
23 If , however , an appeal committee comes to the conclusion that efficiency would be prejudiced by complying with the preference , then the appeal committee will have to proceed to the second stage and decide how to exercise its discretion , by weighing up the advantages which would be achieved by complying with the preference as against the prejudice this would cause .
24 Joshua looked into his eyes , as if weighing up the strength of his anger and calculating the possible effect of even further defiance .
25 The Doctor ordered Howard to stop the car at the top of the road leading down into the city , weighing up the risks of being attacked by one side or the other .
26 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 .
27 WEIGHING UP THE BALANCE
28 ( HAMLET enters upstage , and pauses , weighing up the pros and cons of making his quietus . )
29 This view visualises workers and potential workers weighing up the pleasure gained from an hour of gardening , balancing it against an additional hour in the office or on the production line .
30 In addition to weighing up the results and achievements of the coach 's pupils , the Institute also judges nominees on their standards of personal and professional behaviour , which reflect on the whole practice of coaching and the sport itself .
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