The phrase "alter the first" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to changing or modifying the first item in a sequence or list.
Example: "To improve the presentation, we should alter the first slide to include more visuals."
Alternatives: "modify the first" or "change the first".
In each instance, investigators assert, Harn used his computer access to alter the first part of the bets after those races were run.
That Microsoft doesn't allow computer makers to alter the first display screen on computers equipped with its operating system does not necessarily hamper the use of competing browsers.
Would she, he asked, alter the First or Fourth Amendments "only to the following books…Likewise, would she think that the Fourth Amendment prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures properly apply only to the following specified individuals".
Usually when a writer starts an article about an artist by saying that the performer in question needs no introduction what they're actually doing is admitting that they're too lazy to hop over to Wiki and slightly alter the first two sentences of the producer or DJ's entry because it's 2016 and who has the time to do research or actual writing any more?
The ontology deliberately focuses on the likely clinical impact of variants, e.g., explicitly recognizing any variants that alter the first and last codons of an exon as these often result in splicing defects (Table 1).
So far we have summarized the evidence that verbal threat information can alter the first of Lang's response systems; we now turn to studies that have looked at the other two response systems, namely physiological responses and avoidance behavior.
Soderling returned the favor on big points to alter the second and third sets.
We hypothesized that sGC exposure would alter the second filial generation (F2) offspring neonatal leptin peak that controls development of appetitive behavior with metabolic consequences.
The objective of my project was to analyze how adding time delay and packet loss will alter the second order input signal after it has travelled from the digital controller across the wired control network system to the plant output.
Nonetheless, secondary metabolites found in plants have the potential to alter the first-pass effect since some of them can mimic substrates for enzymes and transport proteins.
Higgins said although World Snooker chairman Barry Hearn has done well, he is wrong to alter the second most prestigious ranking event.
