The phrase "display a pattern" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it when you are talking about a visual representation of an idea or concept, like a graph. For example, "The graph clearly displays a pattern of decreasing sales over the past few months."
According to the plaintiffs' lawyers, the teams display a pattern of disregarding government regulations and normal medical practices, sometimes even after the violations have been pointed out.
What remains unchanged is that similarities and differences among living things on Earth over time and space display a pattern that is best explained by evolutionary theory.
At the time of breeding, male gobies display a pattern of blue spots on their fins and sides while females develop a bright yellow-orange patch on their bellies.
In contrast, low inflation EMs display a pattern similar to the one observed in advanced economies, with financial crises associated to more intense jobless recoveries.In the low-inflation rich world, recessions associated with financial crises produce jobless recoveries.
Along much of the length of this fault, the metamorphic rocks in the hanging wall (located above the fault) display a pattern of inverted isograds; i.e., the rocks that reached the highest temperatures of metamorphism overlie rocks that record lower temperatures, implying that metamorphic temperatures decreased with depth to the fault.
Do species display a pattern that distinguishes them from other types of taxa?
The school's investigators shot an air ball when they said Knight had displayed a "pattern of inappropriate behavior".
Someone who has a behavioral phenotype displays a pattern of characteristic actions that can be linked to the genetic code.
Overall, Purnell said, the incidents cited by Mair displayed "a pattern of individualistic behaviour and a casual relationship with the truth".
Justice Lippmann wrote that officials of the authority had "displayed a pattern of untrammeled arrogance and deception and a disdain for the public they were obligated to serve".
The so-called impartial investigators have shot an air ball when they say that Knight has displayed a "pattern of inappropriate behavior".
