Sentence examples for in passive form from inspiring English sources

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In between are types of vocalizations where there is an abstract agent and non-animate subjects, such as research shows; some cited sentences are in passive form such as it has been shown.

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There are higher donor density and thinner space-charge layer in passive film formed at HAZ than those formed on weld metal and base steel.

Heller is self-deprecating in her account of Barbara's birth, putting it in the passive form despite the acclaim for the book in 2003, including a shortlisting for the Booker prize: "Discovering Barbara, deciding to make her the narrator, was the great gift of the book.

Meanwhile, the proportion of the oxides in passive film formed on SLM 316L increased after heat treatment, especially for the chromic oxide, leading to a better anti-corrosive property.

Earlier, the police also dispersed a small group of demonstrators who squirted water at one another at the square, in a passive form of protest to poke fun at the police's abundant use of water cannons throughout the antigovernment protests.

The self-report questionnaire comprises 21 groups of statements including a screening section that contains five items specifically designed to identify suicidal ideation in active or passive form.

Example 1: The use of a verbal passive form in the original may not be possible in some target languages where active form is a more natural verbal construction.

Besides a complex passive formed with an auxiliary, Swedish, Danish, Dano-Norwegian, and (to a limited degree) New Norwegian have developed an inflectional passive form in -s by the reduction of the old reflexive pronoun sik.

In structures where death plays the participant role of Range, the Actor/Medium can be stated explicitly, as in (17), referred to using indifferentiated terms (e.g. an armed group, see García 2013, Van Leeuwen 1996), as in (9) or occluded completely by using a passive form, as in (14).

In 1992, Madonna was reviled because she refused to present female sexuality in traditionally passive forms.

Example (1) shows an active form which has a potential passive equivalent (cf. A comprehensive illustration... was provided by the description...); (2) is an example of a passive form; (3) is an example of the NP category, active in form with no passive equivalent (the clause has no component which could function as the potential subject in a putative passive form).

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