The phrase "a certain pattern of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a specific, identifiable arrangement or sequence of elements in various contexts, such as behavior, data, or design.
Example: "The study revealed a certain pattern of behavior among the participants that indicated a preference for group activities."
Alternatives: "a specific type of" or "a distinct arrangement of".
In 1973, researchers coined the phrase fetal alcohol syndrome to describe babies born with a certain pattern of neurologic and physiologic defects related to alcohol exposure in utero.
He told a parable of his own invention: how a man, repeating every day of his life a certain pattern of behavior, made the pattern richer.
Pacts were made, positions were bartered, and a certain pattern of clothing became a marker in a line with no end in sight.
When we become habituated to a certain pattern of behavior, something that was initially a normative rule for us becomes a descriptive one.
Making a throw from the outfield, he added, depends on a "certain pattern of steps you have to take, and they're all rhythmically involved".
An artificial neural network could be made to switch on when it "sees" something it knows - a tortoise, say - and it will learn to associate a certain pattern of neuron activity with it.
Ocean-ridge volcanoes in particular have been observed to follow a certain pattern in terms of eruptive activity, first observed with Hawaiian seamounts but now shown to be the process followed by all seamounts of the ocean-ridge type.
Exhaustive search of a certain pattern in the entire image is too time-consuming for applications requiring real-time operation.
Whether intentionally or not, the first lady has a habit of picking a certain pattern or color and riding its wave for some time.
While data analysis cannot tell us whether an individual tweet displays empathy, it can look in aggregate at how Twitter is being used by a firm and identify certain patterns of behavior in interactions between companies and their followers, and infer a degree of engagement.
Some people find therapy very helpful for overcoming a tendency to repeat certain patterns of behavior in relationships.
