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When we use *to-*infinitive verbs after preceding verbs, is it possible to use *to-*infinitives with linking verbs?
- That thief was to deserve the punishment.
- She is to be learning English.
- She was to have gone to her apartment.
- He will to have been attempting to code the program.
a to infinitive is not actually a verb. It is a noun made from a verb, just like a gerund. As complements they function as objects. With link verbs you have only two complement options - an adjective or a noun phrase (gerunds are ok) but almost never infinitives. Your first sentence could be written "The thief was deserving of the punishment." Your other sentences do not contain infinitives.
