The part of the sentence 'passive at' is not correct and not usable in written English.
You cannot use it. Example: 'I am becoming increasingly passive at my job.'.
In the early days, Betty was fairly easy to manipulate, and though she's always been kind of passive, at this point, she's willing to defend that passivity as a weirdly pro-active stance.
"In Tetrahymena, the histones did not seem passive at all," he said.
Murray seems so passive at times - in spite of all the breaks of serve.
Tibetans also say the security forces were unusually passive at the beginning.
There was the intimation that, at its core, women's sexuality might not be passive at all.
I don't know why, but we're a bit passive at the beginning.
A pre-test/multiple posttest design was used with three measures: ability to interpret passives correctly, ability to produce passives at the sentence level, ability to reconstruct a three sentence passage in which passives were embedded.
History of tobacco use, and passive smoking at work and at home were also recorded.
We further categorized women who had never actively smoked but had been exposed to passive smoking at home or at the workplace as 'passive smokers'.
Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke was assessed as both passive exposure at home and global exposure (either at home, at work, or at leisure).
In an age when blindness usually meant a life of passive gratitude at best, and beggary at worst, Holman became an international traveller.
