Much can happen in the immediate future to alter the present pattern of potential probabilities.

And without it I can't alter the present pattern.

They left more than five million years ago, while the stars of the Galaxy were still being moved into their present patterns.

Small events can have far reaching consequences and could easily upset the present pattern.

There was only one possible answer to fit the present pattern.

If present patterns continue, it warns, science and technology may not be able to prevent the slide.

The present pattern of land usage is very nearly that formed from the old strip system at enclosure.

We first want to know the present pattern of traffic delay and then what would happen if the addition were made.

Unless we change the present pattern, 50 percent of the growth in the deficit between now and the year 2000 will be in health-care costs.

But she had woven the straw into its present pattern.