1.   All the troops in a regiment wear a uniform which has its own distinctive pattern or mix of colours.

2.   Its runways made a distinctive pattern, a slanting cross, as if some one had slammed a rubber stamp on the scruffy countryside.

3.   The bicolor damsel, however, retains its distinctive pattern.

4.   These factors shaped distinctive family patterns in the working class.

5.   There is much evidence that the fluctuation field involves distinctive patterns of motion.

6.   Each source of PCBs produces a distinctive pattern of amounts of congeners in each type.

7.   And New York City has its own distinctive pattern of animal disorders.

8.   And, as CR underscores, influenza does appear to have a distinctive pattern of onset.

9.   Bombs also shoot shrapnel, leaving a distinctive pattern of small holes with metal edges splayed outward.