Here’s an example of an infinitive passive structure.
He said it was the summation of the parts working together in such a way that nothing needed to be added, taken away, or altered.
The English Grammar Profile B1 point 4 in the category of passives is defined as:
an infinitive after a limited number of forms including ‘going to’, ‘have to’, ‘need to’, ‘want to’.
*Note that Pearson lists this as:
- GSE 59 B2 ‘need’ with the passive infinitive to express necessity.
- The report needs to be completed this week.
- Homework needs to be handed in today.
We did a very open search for _v to be _vvn on iWeb corpus, so many of the listed below do no meet our criteria.
1 REMAINS TO BE SEEN 31678
2 NEED TO BE MADE 16169
1 THAT NEED TO BE MADE . 709
2 CHANGES NEED TO BE MADE TO 574
3 CHANGES NEED TO BE MADE . 505
3 DESIGNED TO BE USED 15543
4 NEED TO BE REPLACED 13972
5 IS TO BE USED 12323
6 NEED TO BE TAKEN 10988
7 INTENDED TO BE USED 10907
8 NEED TO BE ADDRESSED 10553
9 IS TO BE EXPECTED 10430
10 IS TO BE FOUND 8865
11 HAVE TO BE MADE 8797
12 NEEDS TO BE REPLACED 8692
13 NEEDS TO BE TAKEN 8633
14 EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED 8247
15 NEED TO BE CONSIDERED 8192
16 NEED TO BE PREPARED 8116
17 NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED 7831
18 NEED TO BE REMOVED 7570
19 MEANT TO BE USED 7099
20 AGREE TO BE BOUND 6966
21 ARE TO BE FOUND 6774
22 GOING TO BE USED 6559
1 IT ‘S GOING TO BE USED FOR 63
2 THAT IS GOING TO BE USED FOR 61
3 IT IS GOING TO BE USED FOR 54
23 ARE TO BE USED 6548
24 NEED TO BE CHANGED 6537
25 NEEDS TO BE MADE 6270
26 NEEDS TO BE CHANGED 6077
27 CAME TO BE KNOWN 6045
28 HAVE TO BE PREPARED 5058
This could actually be B2 MODALITY AS A STRONG SUGGESTION: 1 YOU HAVE TO BE PREPARED TO 1218
2 YOU HAVE TO BE PREPARED FOR 721
3 WE HAVE TO BE PREPARED TO 263
29 USED TO BE CALLED 5032
30 WANT TO BE SEEN 4809
1 N’T WANT TO BE SEEN AS 550
2 YOU WANT TO BE SEEN AS 267
31 HAVE TO BE TAKEN 4773
32 HAD TO BE MADE 4699
33 IS TO BE MADE 4681
34 WANT TO BE TREATED 4583
35 NEEDS TO BE REMOVED 4509
36 HAS TO BE SAID 4494
37 NEEDS TO BE FIXED 4367
38 HAVE TO BE PAID 4348
39 NEED TO BE KEPT 4343
40 NEED TO BE COMPLETED 4209
41 NEED TO BE USED 4071
42 HAS TO BE MADE 4061
43 NEED TO BE UPDATED 4044
44 NEED TO BE TREATED 4022
45 HAVE TO BE REMOVED 3975
46 NEED TO BE ADJUSTED 3960
47 HAS TO BE TAKEN 3959
48 NEED TO BE PAID 3955
49 NEEDS TO BE SAID 3913
50 COME TO BE KNOWN 3896
51 SET TO BE RELEASED 3825
52 HAVE TO BE REPLACED 3821
53 NEEDS TO BE CONSIDERED 3809
54 NEED TO BE ADDED 3800
55 WAITING TO BE DISCOVERED 3559
56 EXPECTED TO BE RELEASED 3491
57 IS TO BE TAKEN 3464
58 HAD TO BE TAKEN 3380
59 HAD TO BE REPLACED 3364
60 HAVE TO BE USED 3337
61 NEEDS TO BE UPDATED 3303
62 NEED TO BE CLEANED 3226
63 NEED TO BE SET 3058
64 ARE TO BE BELIEVED 3010
65 ARE TO BE MADE 2997
66 HAD TO BE REMOVED 2933
67 NEEDS TO BE USED 2925
68 NEEDS TO BE ADDED 2921
69 NEED TO BE REMINDED 2885
70 IS TO BE BELIEVED 2839
71 NEEDS TO BE SET 2832
72 HAS TO BE SEEN 2824
73 NEED TO BE INSTALLED 2814
74 HAVE TO BE CONSIDERED 2789
75 NEED TO BE TOLD 2762
76 SEEN TO BE BELIEVED 2761
77 NEED TO BE PUT 2738
78 NEEDED TO BE REPLACED 2713
79 WAS TO BE EXPECTED 2689
80 NEEDS TO BE KEPT 2632
81 IS TO BE HELD 2601
82 NEED TO BE GIVEN 2584
83 NEEDS TO BE TREATED 2579
84 NEED TO BE CONNECTED 2569
85 SCHEDULED TO BE RELEASED 2543
86 NEEDS TO BE GIVEN 2542
87 CONTINUE TO BE USED 2517
88 ARE TO BE EXPECTED 2514
89 NEED TO BE FILLED 2509
90 NEEDS TO BE COMPLETED 2506
91 NEEDS TO BE PUT 2499
92 WANT TO BE LEFT 2483
93 NEED TO BE FIXED 2422
94 ‘S TO BE EXPECTED 2393
95 DESIGNED TO BE WORN 2393
96 HAS TO BE USED 2384
97 NEED TO BE PROTECTED 2352
98 NEEDS TO BE CLEANED 2352
99 HAS TO BE CONSIDERED 2343
100 NEED TO BE CHECKED 2315
B1 verbs:
connected, considered, continue, designed, discovered, expected, fixed, installed, protected, reminded, removed, replaced, updated