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perfectly understandable• For example, the speech we hear over a telephone line is perfectly understandable.• In terms of his own situation and interests this attitude is perfectly understandable.• This idolatrous crowdpostulates an idealworthy of itself and appropriate to its nature, that is perfectly understandable.• Some at least of the leading Romans felt and behaved in a way which seemed to him perfectly understandable and eminently sensible.• That was perfectly understandable, because what we were proposing was so essentially and uniquely horrible.• That's perfectly understandable, but it's not good sense.• This clause appears perfectly understandable from the viewpoint of a supplier of drivers.• This is perfectly understandable if in fact after passives the to infinitiveevokes a mentalconstruct.