The phrase "a reliable record of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to documentation or evidence that is trustworthy and accurate regarding a particular subject or event.
Example: "The historian provided a reliable record of the events that transpired during the war."
Alternatives: "an accurate account of" or "a trustworthy documentation of".
Technical problems with anemometers can make it difficult to establish a reliable record of wind patterns.
Once this rock hardens, it becomes a reliable record of the direction the Earth's magnetic field was pointing at the time of the rock's formation.
While this does not provide a new constraint on Pleistocene climate per se, the relationship confirms that Mississippi fan sediment is a reliable record of upstream landscape processes.
The Government believes this will result in transparency and a reliable record of who produces the purest bales of recyclable plastics, cans, paper and so on.
But his writings are a better guide to the mentality of smart people who went to rock shows in the sixties and seventies than they are a reliable record of music and musicians.
The task of a dictionary editor is two-fold: on the one hand to create a reliable record of word-use, and on the other to preserve the history, tradition, and experience of the language.
But more significantly, it would deny the public any reliable record of what was said.
What matters a lot more is a President's behavior with international leaders, especially in the absence of a reliable record that might correct reversals of memory.
There isn't much in the way of a reliable record about Wilson's own mode of communicating, except for a fifteen-second video that shows him arresting a twenty-nine-year-old white man named Michael Arman.
Few photographers have left a more reliable record of their times, and yet few have taken such pains to wipe from their work any trace of photojournalism.
State real estate laws, he said, "do not have provisions authorizing financial institutions to use the name of a shell company," in large part because "the point of these statutes is to provide a transparent, reliable record of actual — as opposed to nominal — land ownership".
