> “Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it > is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is **your fate to be > required to bear.** (Jane Eyre) It seems ‘your fate to be required to bear’ is a to-infinitive clause (or non-finite-clause by Bas Aarts:“They would hate [**Jim to sell his boat**].” ) and the object of *cannot bear* ; 'what it is' means 'whatever it is' and can be put in brackets. Can all transitive verbs take the clauses as their objects?