The phrase "a big pattern" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a noticeable or significant trend or design in various contexts, such as data analysis, fashion, or art.
Example: "After analyzing the data, we discovered a big pattern in consumer behavior that could influence our marketing strategy."
Alternatives: "a large trend" or "a significant pattern".
But they don't connect that to the occupation: they don't see it as part of a bigger pattern," said the activist.
Of course, it will happen again to most of us, again and again and again — just hopefully not with the same person or as part of a bigger pattern.
The scramble for the Arctic is part of a bigger pattern, a looming resource crunch that connects commuters delayed by stolen power lines to vanishing manhole covers across Europe – a crunch fuelled by severe pressure on key commodities across the world.
"We do not have the institutions ready, or the competencies, and we are facing a huge invasion from many big multinational companies". The scramble for the Arctic is part of a bigger pattern, a looming resource crunch that connects commuters delayed by stolen power lines to vanishing manhole covers across Europe – a crunch fuelled by severe pressure on key commodities across the world.
OUR Japan correspondent reminds us by e-mail that the simmering crisis in North Korea (for which, see a posting on Free Exchange explaining why we should drown Korea in vintage Bordeaux) forms part of a bigger pattern of Asian balance-of-power politics.
To me, the answer looks like less, but it could be that I just don't like it when a critic's hulking voice gets in the way of the projector beam and tries to convince me that what I am looking at makes its real sense only as part of a bigger pattern of thought, that pattern being available from the critic's mind at the price of decoding his prose.
"I see this report as part of a bigger pattern of longer term growing employer confidence.
