Example sentences of "weigh up [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturalists had to fall back on their judgement in family grouping ; and some then and since have followed Adanson , a great French contemporary of Linnaeus , in trying to weigh up all characteristics of an organism instead of taking one or a few as crucial . |
| 2 | He is particularly good with young players and will have to weigh up that security against taking arguably the best job in English cricket . ’ |
| 3 | The result should be a language processing system that combines breadth of coverage and representational power with the ability to weigh up different factors in selecting interpretations . |
| 4 | Behind his insistence that the intensely hierarchical system of submissions be changed , lay Jenkins 's determination that the Home Secretary had to be allowed sufficient scope to use his political judgment in weighing up alternative courses of action . |
| 5 | There was an endless pause , as Roman seemed to be weighing up this piece of sheer bravado . |
| 6 | For the first time in his life , he really looked at his son , weighing up this product of the first six months of marriage before disillusionment set in . |
| 7 | But now he thought about it , weighing up different locations in the house as possible strangling areas , there was a definite pattern to her movements . |