1.   Elders are not passive objects merely conditioned by stimuli from society or their body.

2.   The Essenes are not passive mystics.

3.   These reformers, however, were not passive recipients of a message from on high.

4.   We are not passive victims of the television set.

5.   However, the railways are not passive recipients of such political pressure, but political actors and manipulators in their own right.

6.   And that sort of funneled back into reading, showed them that reading was an active enjoyment they could have, not passive like watching television.

7.   All these were short sentences studded with the action of verbs and not passive sentence fragments.

8.   Carnivorous plants are not passive.

9.   For seeing is active, not passive.