Sentence examples for had been plausible from inspiring English sources

Or until there had been plausible and convincing evidence that the most important elements of the story were false.

A scornful James Agee, reviewing it at the time, said that the story might have been "plausible enough in a dramatically lighted black-and-white picture"; but plausibility is not the issue, and color is the lifeblood of the film.

And if he thought he had six cards in that suit, an opening bid would have been plausible.

It was close-run enough for that to have been plausible, I think, but it didn't happen.

It would never have been plausible for her to go back to a normal life – she was getting the best of both worlds as it was.

The explanation would have been plausible except for one fact: the first reported cases of foot-and-mouth in Britain were in February 2001, a month after the Harrods financial year ended.

Professor Czitrom acknowledged that the 69th Regiment would have been more likely but said that the 71st, which began early in the 1850s as a Know Nothing outfit, by the early 1860s would still have been plausible.

If the boulders were distributed at distances beyond the inundation area of the estimated storm waves, or if the estimated flow velocities required to initiate movement of the boulders were much larger than those of the storm waves, it would have been plausible that these boulders were moved by tsunamis.

This argument might have been plausible a few years ago.

If Ron Paul had been nominated by the Republicans for President in 2008, then it might have been plausible to argue that Republicans were devoted to liberty, but, of course, he was not.

I told Jenkins it might have been plausible for campus management to believe that "Tom" could complete the associates' degree program, with extensive help from the school, and perhaps to have some concern, however unwarranted, about a claim of discrimination if he were rejected.