Sentence examples for passive that from inspiring English sources

A press availability is actively passive; that is, political figures open themselves to general questioning, putting the burden of creating news on the press.

The aim is galleries that will be active rather than passive, that will become part of the art-making process, providing inspiration for artists who, ideally, will make site-specific works for the spaces.

Much of the circum-Pacific region and the northeastern part of Tethys were bordered by active (that is, convergent) plate margins, but the northwestern and southern margins of Tethys were passive (that is, divergent) during the Triassic.

These fluctuations vary with a periodicity of several million years; where they have occurred along passive (that is, tectonically stable) continental margins, they have left a record of marginal marine brackish accumulations that overlap with continental sedimentary deposits in Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, southern Australia, and the Gulf and Atlantic coastal plains of North America.

Of course if you treat people as passive that's what they'll become," he said.

You could do something passive that was extremely social".

We suggest that although they do not correspond to any alternation in Levin (1989), they are parallel constructions to the adjectival passives that manifest as past participles.

She will realize that the understanding is passive and that judgment and therefore error belongs to the will.

This could imply that differentiation is a passive process that has little functional significance for tumor growth.

It will be argued that some of these people have passive boards that rubber-stamp outrageously rich option packages.

In another, it was the more passive group that emerged as mentally healthier.