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91. He often visited her in the early months, talking as if the passive figure in the background wasn't there.

92. Duffy refuses to fall into the trap of spoon-feeding the material to passive students, which only increases their passivity.

93. The authors conclude that the risk of respiratory conditions resulting from passive smoking, although small, is not negligible. 2.

94. There would therefore be an additive effect on the passive water absorption that occurs secondary to solute absorption.sentencedict.com

95. It would have an elite of politically conscious and publicly conscientious active citizens and a majority of couldn't-care-less passive citizens.

96. Wind power and passive solar are competitive with the cost of nuclear power.

97. Departments of Commerce changed from passive complaint bureaus for the business community to active promoters of economic development projects.

98. Such detachment models predict that two types of passive margin will be produced by continental rupture.

99. He takes it for granted that in human generation the female is the passive principle, the male the active.

100. Sartre decrees that Gustave was never homosexual; merely passive and feminine in his psychology.

101. Joette, never one for passive visitors, has soon arranged my visits to coincide with the weekly pumpkin observations.

102. We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice- that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it.". Sydney J. Harris 

103. Children who are very passive and uncommunicative should alert us to the possibility that problems exist in the life of the family.

104. If only passive properties determine the pressure elastic modulus[sentencedict.com], an exponential increase would have been expected.

105. For a woman, releasing the creative process in herself is in fact a passive state.

106. It is much cheaper and easier to treat residents as passive and incapable.

107. A woman as passive and yet responsive as she was could well suffer emotional distress which she would not overtly express.

108. Woman is not the passive chattel that the tussles of despots, described in the last chapter, have implied.

109. Her licentiousness was entirely passive, reflecting not her own desires but those of the man she was with.

110. A passive fatalism at the capriciousness and heavy-handedness of authority prevailed amongst the thirty-year men.

111. They lead a double life, on the surface passive, even servile, but inside they suffer.

112. Delusion-formation in paranoid disorders makes use of this process to provide defence against the passive homosexual wish.

113. Yet because of their passive acceptance of the ministrations of their neighbours they become the focus of attention.

114. Some system developers and their software programmers assume that consumers are itching to be converted from passive to interactive television watchers.

115. Lovable but passive William has carried on by keeping a mistress on the side, whose existence is acknowledged by all.

116. In his couplings Tom was always the active, never the passive, partner.

117. The state is passive in the productive system, allowing private actors to operate in a relatively unconstrained manner.

118. There she was as passive as possible to the weather, neither wracking nor bending unduly on the crests of the rollers.

119. Traditionally, women have been viewed as dependent and passive, and males as aggressive and assertive.

120. That use of the passive in written language which allows non-attribution of agency is typically absent from conversational speech.