The phrase "a pattern of course" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a recurring trend or behavior that is expected in a particular context.
Example: "In the study of human behavior, researchers often observe a pattern of course that emerges over time, indicating consistent responses to similar stimuli."
Alternatives: "a typical trend" or "a recurring pattern".
These findings suggest that children and adolescents who bully others, frequently also show other forms of antisocial behaviour and that some of those students show a pattern of life-course persistent antisocial behaviour [ 29].
His advice included "a long tasteful piece of drapery, falling from the curtain-cornice as part of the curtains" and a new carpet: "It should be something – of a small pattern of course – in dark chocolate or russet, with maybe a little green and red.
There's a pattern here, of course, because this sort of thing happens every single time Google does anything in any way related to online content.
How it works is almost absurd: you turn on the device's display, and the unlock pattern screen should show up (assuming that you have a pattern set, of course).
Their marked increase at 60 months suggests their role as a coping strategy when the pattern of course and outcome of illness becomes established.
But if they don't also complete Geometry and Algebra 2 (or, with the introduction of the Common Core state standards, an integrated pattern of courses covering the same material), students aren't eligible to attend either of the state's public university systems.
Imaginative usage may interfere with this pattern, of course, as when a ship or country is referred to as "she".
The exception to this pattern, of course, was at Tiananmen Square, where Chinese authorities quashed the student revolt.
The pattern, of course, is that these aren't so much estimates as default clichés, heavy on folk wisdom and light on deduction.
There are exceptions to this pattern, of course.
