It may follow some of the plot line, but not the whole pattern.

Most have a path, which goes all around the whole pattern, either to end in the middle or to come back out again.

The whole pattern of moving men in the rain exploded.

"Seems to me there's enough of those clear areas, someone should be able to reproduce the whole pattern."

Then the whole red pattern turned orange and it froze.

When the whole pattern is good, it's a thing of beauty.

She had seen the whole pattern as simple and straightforward.

I fear it is not possible to make any change in an existing scene without breaking up the whole pattern.

"And I wanted to alter the whole pattern of history."

There was only this one relationship in the whole pattern: the temple and the new road.