Sentence examples for pattern could have been from inspiring English sources

Industry groups contended that the pattern could have been caused by coincidental dips and peaks of viral illness.

Based on the reconstructed fire and vegetation shifts, a changing land use pattern could have been recognized.

A gold-embroidered coat overlaid with black strips of fabric in a chevron pattern could have been taken from the ornate wood front of an organ.

The following analysis was carried out to determine whether the brain-to-brain entrainment pattern could have been mediated or boosted by the Listener/Speaker's brain entrainment to speech.

Meanwhile, Brian Naranjo, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, said his analysis of data from the last scientific paper that was published by Dr. Taleyarkhan's group showed a chance of less than one in 10 million that the emission pattern could have been generated by fusion.

First, we test whether the pattern could have been caused by an ancient whole-genome duplication (WGD) in the common ancestor of the three Aspergillus species, similar to the WGD that occurred in an ancestor of Saccharomyces cerevisiae [6], [7], followed by a lower rate of gene loss in A. oryzae than in A. nidulans and A. fumigatus.

Its transatlantic urban showbiz patter and smart literary patterns could have been just a jaded fast-lane bummer, a depleting ride in John Self's purple Fiasco – 'a vintage-style coupe with oodles of dash and heft and twang'.

But one is left wondering how someone so cynical about the dysfunctionality of Arab political patterns could have been so optimistic about the "Baghdad spring" in the first place.

The floor of my room, No. 635, was covered with tiles whose repeating swirly psychedelic patterns could have been created by a teenager who had seen too many Pink Floyd laser shows.

The genes in the second (putatively vertically inherited) and third (putatively horizontally transferred) patterns could have been established in the common ancestor of STX+ and STX− cyanobacteria; however, they were subsequently lost differentially from STX− cyanobacteria.

A response shift cannot be excluded in this study; the HRQOL response patterns could have been affected by choice of comparator group.