[Grammar] “there is ………to be+ perfect tense”.

[Frankykz]

“there is +Noun+to be+past participle”.

Hi,
I am confused with the sentences shown below,
There is a house to be built soon.
There is a question to be answered.

I have been looking for examples in corpus sites such as COCA, I don’t see any example sentences like them.

I wanted to make sure if it would be OK to write, “there is+Noun+to be+ past participle”. Or is there other option to writer better?

Please Help!!!
Thanks !!!!

 

[TheParser]

Re: “there is +Noun+to be+past participle”.

***** NOT A TEACHER *****

Hello, Frankykz:

When I want to know how authors use the English language, I go to the "books" section of Google (where thousands of books have been digitalized for us).

I typed in "There are questions to be answered" and found many examples.

I typed in "There are houses to be built" and found many examples.

I think that this example will delight you:

"There are goods to be weighed and measured; there are horses to be driven, to be shoed, to be groomed; there are houses to be built and repaired."

Source: A Layman's Contribution ( published in 1857).

Many examples, however, were not that old. Many were in recently published books.

 

[Frankykz]

Re: “there is +Noun+to be+past participle”.

Hi TheParser
Thank you so much for you answer. When I searched, I didn't see any examples with "house" although there are many examples such as "there is work to be done", there is something to be said for..." etc. So I am afraid to fit the particular word" house" in the sentence form. Now I feel safe to write sentence like " there is a HOUSE to be built".
Thank you again!!!