Sentence examples for passive forms from inspiring English sources

Cut out wordiness and avoid passive forms or too much background information.

Research has clearly shown that passive forms of information dissemination do not result in new approaches being effectively implemented.

By the time I started work on my third book, I'd come to believe that novels weren't passive forms of entertainment.

That is not to say that I despise spending time with people, it's just that I need time to recharge, and this often involves using more passive forms of communication such as social networking.

He also criticised those modern types who "cannot amuse themselves; they are too used to being amused", showing that our attraction to passive forms of entertainment is nothing new.

Although Archaeopteryx is still considered the earliest animal capable of powered flight, a number of close non-avian relatives have at least some features that suggest they may have been capable of gliding or other passive forms of flight – trading height for distance and moving between trees as do animals like 'flying' frogs and 'flying' squirrels.

A storage function is constructed for each terminal and reshaped into a desired output strictly passive form via feedback passivation with an extra system damping.

This state of mind brings a contentment he never finds with any passive form of entertainment.

This is sometimes described as a passive form of money creation.

But she says government changes have made the job unsuited to independent thinkers, and more attractive to passive form-fillers.

As defined by this shrewd, almost dematerialized group exhibition, it is a passive form of political deceit.