The phrase "a pattern to replace" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a specific design or model that is intended to substitute another.
Example: "We need to establish a pattern to replace the outdated system currently in use."
Alternatives: "a model to substitute" or "a template to take the place of".
The effective width of the EB FRP strips and sheets, w fe, was defined based on a distributed shear-crack pattern to replace the bonding area of a beam with a multiple-line cracking pattern to an equivalent bonding area in a beam with a single-line cracking pattern.
He functions as counselor both in the psychological and lawyerly sense, offering canny new thought patterns to replace downer feelings: proving to women, for instance, how they are, inch for inch, actually trimmer than those with whom, for reasons of poor self-esteem, they might compare themselves.
Limb regeneration represents an elaborate process in which wound healing, cellular dedifferentiation, tissue remodeling and patterning occur to replace the amputated appendage.
Darwin's goal was to come up with a naturalistic explanation for an orderly pattern of relationships in nature to replace the supernaturalistic one then (and sadly still) hegemonic.
Once you've determined some of your negative thought patterns, it's time to replace them with the positive, or at least with the neutral.
A pattern of generals replacing civilian presidents only to be replaced again by generals has been the rule from Panama to Argentina for the better part of a century.
I thought you had written a dialogue where all the bad words created a pattern, then replaced the bad words with beeps.
To a broader extent, a significant shift from the use of animal dung towards biogas energy is indicative of a pattern towards replacing unclean and unsafe energy technology with modern and safe technology [18].
The Army has been field-testing new camouflage to replace the universal pattern and, in the interim, has issued an unpixelated fabric called MultiCam to some troops.
Earlier this week, a friend sent me an article from the UK's Daily Mail indicating that the U.S. Army was planning to replace its "Universal Camouflage Pattern" less than a decade after it was first introduced.
