This passive approach to fact-gathering can pose a problem when, as often happened, Bukowski produced five or six versions of an incident over a period of years.
Minton (2015), however, argues that while much of the opposition to the use of the passive is, in fact, opposition to inappropriate use of the passive, when appropriately used it has a perfectly justifiable place.
Our primary question was whether Japanese patients are in fact passive as regards medical decision making.
As for passive smoking, the fact that 68% of the children were exposed may have reduced the power of detecting a significant difference.
The models in the mentioned references 262 and 263 [7, 8], which are accused in implying passive membranes, in fact, build on an assumption that the very first membranes could be impermeable to large polymeric molecules but leaky to small molecules.
The observed tendency of light-driven proton transport in both HRs were in fact passive processes accelerated by light-driven chloride inward transportation as explained in a previous study [ 27], indicating that light-driven inward chloride transport occurred.
Protection appears dependent on the production of high levels of neutralizing antibody to both toxin A and toxin B. In fact, passive transfer of monoclonal antibodies to these toxins provides protection against C. difficile in human subjects.
In fact, passive leg oscillations may be modelled according to the laws of physics for a simple pendulum and the computation of natural frequency and damping ratio can support evaluation of the stiffness and viscosity associated with the cyclic movement [ 8- 10] (see "Mechanical measurements and estimations" in "Methods").
Sebald's seemingly passive prose was in fact – to borrow Marianne Moore's memorable phrase – "diction galvanised against inertia".
Rhodes deals in the main with wan, passive, earnestly matter-of-fact men who go to their dooms with a sort of glum acceptance.
