The phrase "a pattern by which" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a method or system that guides or influences actions or outcomes.
Example: "The study identified a pattern by which successful teams communicate more effectively than their less successful counterparts."
Alternatives: "a method through which" or "a system that governs".
That, suggested McDonnell, made it one of the most significant shots in the development of British golf, because by propelling Palmer towards his first Open, it "set a pattern by which other world-class Americans, who wished to stand comparison, had to follow.
Self-serving bias refers to a pattern by which individuals attribute positive outcomes to internal factors (e.g., ability, effort) and negative outcome to external factors (e.g., task difficulty, luck) (Miller & Ross, 1975).
We are now close to codifying a pattern by which a new president is expected never to give up one war without taking on another.
Of relevance is the fact that the variability in sequence compositions that share a common structure was considerable and allowed unraveling a precise pattern by which the more robust molecules to environmental perturbations were also those more robust to mutational perturbations.
(Between April and September, the numbers dip, but this reflects a seasonal pattern by which all TV shows are affected.
FGF inhibitors, acting as putative mediators, may periodically suppress FGF signaling in the middle to anterior PSM around the position of the determination front in order to generate a discrete pattern, by which the position of somite boundaries is determined.
It is uncertain whether this response of DBA mice to HF diet is strictly liver-specific, or whether it is indicative of an aberrant pattern by which systemic inflammation progresses in this mouse strain.
Here, we hypothesize that a winner-take-all process would require a neuronal interconnectivity pattern by which any location within a feature map is allowed to inhibit all other locations in a global fashion (cf. Fig. 1B,D).
The first of these papers, published in the Public Library of Science by Shripad Tuljapurkar of Stanford University and his colleagues, shows it could be a consequence of the universal pattern by which older men marry younger women.
"It's a pattern, by now, in which Israel has to absorb rockets because somebody in Gaza has differences with Hamas".
Studying the pattern by which such a signature spread among the evolving lineages can help resolve the dynamics of the evolutionary process at the time.
