The evidence is spread through large patterns; it's not something I can put into words.

Particularly as this is part of a larger pattern, yes?

Or find a larger pattern into which it could merge?

It was the larger pattern of Chris, making itself known at last.

"We worry that this may be part of a larger pattern."

"But at the same time, we're discussing the larger patterns of everybody's lives."

This is a grand plan; but she has not learned that there are other patterns older and larger than her own.

He had been forced out of the frame, caught up into the larger pattern.

Sometimes small things have great importance in the larger pattern, Brian thought.

It all was part of a larger pattern whose meaning even Claire did not understand.