How to use in-sentence of “passive”:
– See Passive house, Superinsulation, Self-sufficient homes, Zero energy building, Earthship, Straw-bale construction, MIT Design Advisor, Energy Conservation Code for Indian Commercial Buildings.
– The shelf on a passive edge of a plate will be wide and shallow.
– It contrasts with a passive process.
– It can also be used as a verb but usually in the passive sense.
– These auxiliaries help make a question, show tense, or make passive voice.
– The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders revision IV says passive-aggressive personality disorder is a “pervasive pattern of negativistic attitudes and passive resistance to demands for adequate performance in social and occupational situations”.
– In the how to write simple English articles, an excample is given that a passive form can/should be replaced by a first person.
Example sentences of “passive”:
- They criticized the way Stowe wrote about the characters' looks, speech, behavior, and the passive nature of Uncle Tom.Smith; Jessie Carney; "Images of Blacks in American Culture: A Reference Guide to Information Sources" Greenwood Press.
- These are passive 'flypapers' which hide mucus.
– They criticized the way Stowe wrote about the characters’ looks, speech, behavior, and the passive nature of Uncle Tom.Smith; Jessie Carney; “Images of Blacks in American Culture: A Reference Guide to Information Sources” Greenwood Press.
– These are passive ‘flypapers’ which hide mucus.
– Gas may be moved actively or by passive diffusion.
– In Greek, “Pandora” has an active and not a passive meaning.
– This is an approach to ecosystem valuation, an alternative to the traditional view of all non-human life as passive natural resources.
– However, in its landmark opinion, it allowed passive euthanasia in India.
– Someone in a coma who is kept alive with a ventilator, and the doctors turn it off and they die, would be passive non-voluntary euthanasia.
– There are two main forms of codependence: passive and active.
– The first use of passive sonar was in 1490 by Leonardo da Vinci, This acronym replaced the British acronym ASDIC.
– The Rafale avionics consists of an “RBE2” electronic scanning radar, the “OSF” passive visual system and “SPECTRA” electronic warfare.
– The membership criteria formulated during the Preparatory Conference to the Belgrade Summit show that the Movement was not conceived to play a passive role in international politics but to formulate its own positions in an independent manner so as to reflect the interests of its members.
– In passive clauses, the object is moved to the subject position.
– They spread by this passive method to many places where they have no natural predators.
– As an example, many countries made laws that forbid smoking in restauarants, to protect the staff against the effects of passive smoking.
– In 2000, the first passive house followed with direct heating and heat recovery and in 2006 the plus energy house, which gains more energy than it needs.
– The tin soldier’s passive acceptance of whatever happens to him, while exemplifying pietistic ideals of self-denial, also contributes to his doom.
– If passive crossover uses resistors to adjust loudness, those generate heat.