The phrase "a parallel can be drawn" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when you want to indicate that similarities or comparisons can be made between two different subjects or situations.
Example: "In examining the two historical events, a parallel can be drawn between their causes and consequences."
Alternatives: "a comparison can be made" or "similarities can be observed".
This paper puts forward the view that a parallel can be drawn between rhetoric, design and TRIZ in particular.
On another level, a parallel can be drawn with Proust, in the effect of the structuring of time over a large scale.
Robots are key to cost reduction of our manufacturing processes and a parallel can be drawn to farming in the early 1900's.
A parallel can be drawn between the beryciforms and lampridiforms in certain modifications exhibited by the deep-sea forms, compared with their surface-living relatives.
It's not a new idea in art either – a parallel can be drawn to Lieber Maler male mir ("Dear painter, paint for me"), in which German artist Martin Kippenberger contracted colleagues to paint works on his behalf.
In the first two serialised extracts from Not for Turning (Volume I, to be published on Tuesday, Allen Lane, £30) in this weekend's Daily and Sunday Telegraphs – Moore is a former editor of both newspapers – a parallel can be drawn with young Margaret Roberts's first romance.
A similar parallel can be drawn about The Cleveland Show, a new 1/2 hour animated comedy starring the father-son team, which is a spin-off of The Family Guy.
A close parallel can be drawn with random variable generation by the acceptance-rejection method.
A striking parallel can be drawn with findings by Johnson, Strand, and D'Imperio, (1999), who reported an auditory identification shift for a hood– hud continuum for listeners who merely imagined listening to a male or a female speaker.
Morling and Lamoreaux have reported that Asians have more 'collectivistic and less individualistic social cultures' than Westerners, and a possible parallel can be drawn between our results and those seen in other culturally similar Asian countries such as Japan and Korea.
A useful parallel can be drawn with the Bank's aggressive advocacy of market-oriented health sector 'reform' on the basis that private purchase of care or insurance was the norm from which all departures required justification (Laurell and Arellano 1996; Lee and Goodman 2002; Lister and Labonté 2009).
