The phrase "alter one of the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing changes or modifications to a specific item or element within a group or set.
Example: "To improve the design, we need to alter one of the existing components."
Alternatives: "modify one of the" or "change one of the".
To alter one of the model buildings would be a huge undertaking".
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.
After a predefined number of 5 patients, image quality and usefulness were subjectively assessed, and the need to alter one of the acquisition parameters was discussed in a consensus meeting between three investigators (AvdH, JP, EJV).
Todd Jackson, product manager for Gmail and Google Buzz, wrote in a blog post on Saturday that Google had decided to alter one of the most-criticized features in Buzz: the ready-made circle of friends the service provided to new users based on their most frequent e-mail and chat contacts in Gmail.
BEIJING — China will start overhauling its draconian system of re-education through labor in the coming year, according to the state news media, signaling the incoming leadership's determination to alter one of the government's more widely despised cudgels for punishing petty criminals, religious dissidents, petitioners and other perceived social irritants.
The results may rekindle efforts to alter one of the compounds in Lorenzo's oil to enable it to enter the brain, says neurologist Hugo Moser, who studies ALD at the Kennedy Krieger Institute at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore.
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.
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.
"I wondered, 'What can I do with this that hasn't already been done?' " Aside from some subtle tinkering -- most notably starting the show with the song "Another Openin', Another Show" and altering one of the supporting roles, changes implemented with the help of the playwright John Guare -- Mr. Blakemore honored the original spirit of the show and was rewarded for it with rave reviews.
Meanwhile, the Times reports that the Customs and Border Protection agency is altering one of the few border crossings people think is pretty — the agency thinks that the words "United" and "States," in bright yellow twenty-foot tall letters, will make it a terrorist target.
