The phrase "the prevailing pattern" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
This phrase is used to describe a pattern that is widely accepted, usually over a period of time. For example: Although some people are beginning to challenge traditional gender roles, the prevailing pattern is still for men to work outside the home and women to be responsible for household responsibilities.
One trenchant backbench critic acknowledges that many Tory MPs "usually follow the prevailing pattern".
But the prevailing pattern remains for professors to lecture in large halls, with students expected to be quiet and listen.
Bright boys, from solidly middle-class or aspirant working-class backgrounds, good grammar schools, academically successful: that has been the prevailing pattern.
It was also axiomatic that political institutions adapt to the prevailing pattern of human behaviour, which is determined not by moral sentiments but by economic and political conditions.
The development of Moldovan culture after World War II, however, followed the prevailing pattern of the Soviet Union as a whole.
That was the prevailing pattern before the late 1990's, when the booming economy made agencies rush anxiously to buy time ahead of the season, fearing that prices would be higher later and supply scarcer.
The prevailing patterns that we saw throughout this model were Scenario 2 performed best on the left side, Scenario 3 performed best on the right side, Scenario 5 and 6 had nearly identical results, and on average Scenario 1 performed had the best results.
Sustainable development cannot be achieved without changes in the prevailing patterns of economic growth.
Health sector reform involves changing the prevailing patterns of authority and power.
Our null distributions for these measures were derived from evolutionary patterns for a diverse array of nontoxin sequences that were expressed in the venom glands of both species and therefore may not reflect the prevailing patterns throughout the rest of the genome.
Indeed, neutrophil activation and prolonged survival is a feature of persistent intestinal inflammation and histological examination of the mucosal tissue reveals a spectrum of pathologic manifestations among which presence of an abundance of neutrophils accounts not only for the morphologic lesions of UC, but also for the prevailing patterns of mucosal inflammation [ 2, 13].
