going | have | need | want + TO BE + past participle – English Grammar Profiler

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.

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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:

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