Example sentences of "[that] it be up [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 So I reckon that it 's up to me to get a job and pay for Dad 's medical care . ’
2 And that it 's up to them to do the research , to listen to advisers , parents , other students and so on , but at the end of the day it 's them that 's got to go and do the course .
3 It is not enough to say , as successive reports from the IMF or the World Bank have tended to do , that it all depends on governments and that it is up to them how the economy prospers .
4 The philosophy maintains that it is up to you to take initiatives and through so doing to refuse to be bored .
5 remember that it is up to you what you include on your schedule The more accurately you can assess your expenditure for the next year , the easier it should prove to keep on top of your finances .
6 She felt that it was up to her now to protect her mother : Mama , do come to the House of Commons with me .
7 But after a further month 's reflection she changed her mind and wrote to Moira that it was up to her to do something about ‘ the incompetence of your staff at Harriet Street [ which ] is now causing BA and myself sleepless nights ’ .
8 Boy assumed that it was up to him to find out if these bars were closed , were unfashionable , were dangerous or were simply too expensive for him to visit …
9 Whereas the priests told him that he must die and would go either to heaven or to hell , the singers of songs told him that , though he must die , his name need not and that it was up to him whether he left behind a good or an evil reputation .
10 Those were my spoken replies to my mother , but my unspoken one was that it was up to me , and not to her , to decide when and to what extent I was either cold or hungry .
11 In the circumstances it is obvious that it was up to me to present them first .
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