The phrase "alter the underlying" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to indicate a change to the fundamental aspects or basis of something.
Example: "To improve the system's performance, we need to alter the underlying architecture."
Alternatives: "modify the foundation" or "change the basis".
They do not threaten to alter the underlying strategic transatlantic alliance.
The coalition has gone for the second and its failure to get many things (anything?) right does not alter the underlying argument.
It would be better to propose practical ways to alter the underlying situation, whereby the forces opposing this settlement are so dominant.
These were the first formal face-to-face negotiations between Falklanders and Argentina since the war and they were held at the islanders' request.They will not alter the underlying dispute.
Blinkx doesn't alter the underlying player, but layers on top of it.
The "unprecedented decision" could "alter the underlying premise on which collegiate varsity sports is based," the university's attorneys said in a brief filed with the National Labor Relations Board NLRBB) in Washington, D.C.
It was seen that AZ31 exhibited unusually high normalized strain-hardening rates compared to α-Ti that occurred beyond the strain levels where extension twins have completely altered the underlying texture.
Besides the influences from trans-acting factors and cis-acting regulatory elements, large number of DNA/histone-modifying enzymes also contribute to local gene activity (Kimura, 2013), both of which could recruit specified protein complexes to regulate transcription without altering the underlying genes sequences.
This may seem like an insignificant change, but it alters the underlying cognitive framework that serves as the basis from which aid organizations operate.
Nevertheless, looked at objectively it's difficult to say the young generation succeeded in fundamentally altering the underlying fabric of society.
In this paper, we introduce a novel method that uses gene pairs to improve the overall accuracy of the existing classification methods without altering the underlying algorithms.
