Sentence examples for beginning of a pattern from inspiring English sources

"There would be maybe the beginning of a pattern there," Mr. Quinn said.

This was the beginning of a pattern in Texas's boom-or-bust oil economy.

It added to the cost, created more bureaucracy, and was the beginning of a pattern of costly delays.

I didn't think much about it at the time, but this was the beginning of a pattern that I can see now was quite unhealthy.

Are we seeing the beginning of a pattern of provocation that will have the effect, intended or not, of fostering an isolationist politics in the United States?

One man grabbed her breasts, the beginning of a pattern of disturbing behavior she would experience from her captors over the next 48 hours.

Hochberg thinks that, in fact, this 5 and 3 wave pattern is just the beginning of a larger pattern.

There is the confirmation that New Labour's lengthy occupation of Downing Street was not the beginning of a new pattern, but an anomaly.

In the beginning of a familiar pattern, Williamsburg's population booms as people fleeing the crowding and high rents of the Lower East Side flood the neighborhood.

A senior Israeli military officer said that he hoped that the infiltration and attack last week were onetime incidents, not the beginning of a new pattern of violence on the northern border.

In the '50s, the PCC car became, without anyone's realizing that this was the beginning of a postindustrial pattern, one of the first great technological successes that this country let slip away.