The phrase "a pattern that can" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the potential or capability of a pattern to achieve a certain outcome or function.
Example: "We need to identify a pattern that can help us predict future trends in the market."
Alternatives: "a pattern capable of" or "a pattern that is able to".
Here, then, global health scholars who engage in gender-transformative programming have been influenced by a social science understanding of gender not as something that one 'is' but as something that one 'does' in a patterned set of social interactions within social institutions – a pattern that can be 'undone' (West and Fenstermaker 1995; West and Zimmerman 1987).
Even a poem might have a pattern that can spark a mathematical thought.
Many are coming to see addiction as a learned pattern of thinking and acting – a pattern that can be unlearned.
Even a cocktail party can be mapped that way: the most sociable people are the "hubs" that link all the guests in a pattern that can be drawn.
In theory the idea of a snake-print Lanvin dress sounds quite fabulous but unfortunately, as JK Rowling found out, it's a pattern that can overwhelm.
The text named after him (of uncertain date) presents a philosophy that views natural changes as a pattern that can serve as a model for human activities.
The popular scientist, who has already done much to unlock the mysteries of numbers in his previous books and journalism, explores the mystery of a patterning that can be found everywhere from architecture to the structure of crystals.
It can impart only the information it was printed with, represented by a series of horizontal stripes or a matrix pattern that can be read by an optical device, like a laser.
The developments in the Anglican Church of Canada are a part of a larger pattern that can be seen in Indigenous groups around the world.
"We also take core samples of the earth in a checkerboard pattern that can outline a grave," he said, "and compare it with surrounding soil.
The pattern then gets turned into a 3D model, which becomes a flat pattern that can be drawn onto some fabric and cut out, then assembled into a one-of-a-kind garment.
