The phrase "alter one of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to changing or modifying a specific item or element from a group or set.
Example: "To improve the design, we need to alter one of the existing features."
Alternatives: "modify one of" or "change one of".
To alter one of the model buildings would be a huge undertaking".
Maybe, Yogi said to Posada, the doctor could alter one of Posada's gloves and stitch in this kind of fishnet webbing, too.
2) My mom would alter one of her blouses for me, which generally made me feel like my waist was too short, my shoulders too slumped, and my boobs like they were in a bra two sizes too big.
Grellener theorized that's because the cartel chemists have managed to alter one of meth's isomers, turning L-methamphetamine, whish is commonly used to relieve congestion, into D-methamphetamine, which is the component that gets a person buzzed.
And last Friday, with all of the banter about "clean coal" drowning out the critics, the Bush administration quietly moved to alter one of the last remaining laws protecting against the wholesale clear-cutting and horrific strip mining practice called mountaintop removal in Appalachia.
There are seven base pair positions in the predicted marine c-Jun binding site, and 21 corresponding single bp mutations that could alter one of these bases.
Presumably, increased expression of PPP1R1A would have a beneficial effect on virus survival by altering one of the many other pathways involving PP1; for example, the cell cycle.
Couldn't we preserve that as a monument?" "Our research showed that Gate 2 had been altered," one of the planners said.
The soundtrack is a collage of Namibian songs and "Magic Flute" arias, somewhat altered — one of Sarastro's arias, instead of being sung, is played by a military brass band.
As moving and as full of ceremony as they were, the two funerals yesterday only underscored the way the mass killing has altered one of the city's most hallowed rites -- the police funeral.
THE theme of a surprisingly wry campaign for an Internet services company could be summarized -- with apologies to Cole Porter -- by altering one of his song titles to declare "My Heart Belongs to Data".
