The phrase "a pattern may be" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the possibility or potential existence of a pattern in a given context.
Example: "In this dataset, a pattern may be emerging that indicates a correlation between the variables."
Alternatives: "a pattern could exist" or "there might be a pattern".
But with reports last week from two bellwether companies -- I.B.M. and Microsoft -- a pattern may be emerging for the way the world will work going forward.
Such a pattern may be explained from a balance between nucleation rate of Cr-carbides and grain boundary Cr-flux, though postulating an exact model is premature at this stage.
A pattern may be emerging: "Under the Skin" slots in neatly beside "Her," and also beside the upcoming "Lucy," in which she plays a drug mule who ingests some of her cargo and develops unusual superpowers.
The big fear is that a pattern may be set whereby Mr Sarkozy gives himself political cover for reforms at home by loudly carping at the EU's free-trade underpinnings.Talking TurkeySuch carping will be resisted.
There was the quirky-looking, very tall boy at the youth group who played guitar, sang his own songs and had a clingy girlfriend; there was the quirky-looking, very tall boy who was a poet (a pattern may be discernible) and the boyfriend of a friend, and thus strictly off limits, but who had a mouth I couldn't help thinking about, and the kind of eyes hard to look into for long.
Unfortunately, such a pattern may be very difficult to test because it requires knowledge of numerous ancestral species in a direct line from a living species with complex eyes.
A similar pattern may be seen by shining a laser pointer at a compact disc.
Intakes of these as a dietary pattern may be related to a decreased risk of coronary heart disease independently.
Without even fully understanding the processes underlying a disease, treatments that restore a 'healthy' pattern may be effective.
A stored pattern, may be then be retrieved when a noisy or occluded version of it (a partial cue) is provided as input.
A similar pattern may be discerned in development, where – rather than the cream rising inevitably to the top – the same names tend to crop up time and again.
