The phrase "a plausible basis to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the justification or reasoning behind a particular argument, decision, or action.
Example: "The researchers provided a plausible basis to support their hypothesis regarding climate change."
Alternatives: "a reasonable foundation for" or "a credible rationale for".
This decision will give Barr a plausible basis to resist the Judiciary Committee's subpoena of the entire Mueller report, even if the committee goes to court to enforce it.
On Tuesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans reversed the ruling and reinstated the case, saying that "the allegations, taken in their entirety, provide more than a plausible basis to find that the understanding between the C.E.O. and Cuban was that he was not to trade, that it was more than a simple confidentiality agreement".
This theme, being taken up today by Beck and other antigovernment sorts, had a plausible basis at the time.
"The Warner Bros, 1916 short has not been displayed or exhibited for almost a century and there is no plausible basis to contend that there is any chance of confusion between the two productions," TWC lawyer David Boies said in a letter to Warner Bros. and the MPAA (provided, again, to Deadline.com).com
The first challenge was a strictly legal one: persuading any justices who might be inclined to intervene in this state election law dispute that there is a plausible basis for the Supreme Court to assert its jurisdiction.
It is enough, however, to be a plausible basis for generating a hypothesis for empirical test.
The molecular mechanisms supporting a hypersensitivity to exogenous DA are yet to be determined, though in the case of the dat-1 mutants, a plausible basis is a reduced requirement for exogenous DA to achieve DOP-3 activation in animals that cannot capitalize on the DA clearance activity provided by DAT-1.
Cleverly borrowing good ideas from both sides of the party divide, his proposals at least look like a plausible basis for agreement (see article).The plan obliges everyone to take out health insurance while creating a tapering subsidy for poorer families to help them afford it.
Based on the fact that APP is a type I membrane protein that is proteolytically processed to form Aβ in sphingolipid-enriched membrane microdomains, the possibility that modulation of membrane lipid composition could represent a novel means to regulate Aβ production presents a plausible basis for AD therapeutic intervention [ 9, 11, 49– 52].
Since some testimony involves secrets, there was a plausible basis for allowing the military judge, Col. James L. Pohl of the Army, to control the audio stream available to journalists and spectators viewing the proceedings.
Given the complexities of a cell's variable exposure to autocrine/juxtacrine signaling in culture, this model incorporates a plausible basis for a variable activity of an autocrine signaling pathway eliciting heterogeneous expression of intracellular components.
