The phrase "altered beyond the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing changes that have been made to something to such an extent that it is no longer recognizable or has significantly deviated from its original form.
Example: "The original document was altered beyond the point of recognition, making it difficult to determine its initial content."
Alternatives: "changed beyond the" or "modified beyond the".
1. (Degraded and secondary forests) - Include all those forests and forest lands that have been altered beyond the normal effects of natural processes through unsustainable use.
8. (Primary forest) - The initial forest cover of a primary, old-growth or managed forest has been affected by unsustainable, excessive timber and wood exploitation or by such intensity of extraction of non-wood forest products, that its structure, processes, functions and dynamics are altered beyond the elastic capacity of the forest ecosystems.
All other pairs representing biologically meaningful combinations of interest including G-4 h vs. G-C, S-4 h vs. S-C, S-8 h vs. S-C, G-8 h vs. S-8 h, G-4 h vs. G-8 h and S-4 h vs. S-8 h failed to identify any genes significantly altered beyond the cut-off.
There is something instructive about a label's refusal to alter, beyond the occasional aesthetic tweak, a business formula based on a simple $395 driving shoe that has driven Tod's to billion-dollar profitability.
"People's pay, working patterns and pensions have altered beyond recognition in the past 30 years," says Pete Ball, the lender's chief executive.
Facsimiles of famous artworks by Mark Rothko, Sol LeWitt and others have been altered beyond recognition, but the space around them hasn't been touched.
Personal circumstances have been altered beyond all recognition while the geopolitical situation ultimately remains unchanged: the chairs have been rearranged and superpowers have switched sides (sort of), but the West Bank is still a sinking ship.
Walking towards Morris Lapidus' 1960 Sheraton Motor Inn--defaced and altered beyond recognition--on the block between 10th and 11th, I saw two huge, generic, Beijing-style apartment buildings going up.
Scheme after scheme has been introduced, some of which have subsequently been dropped or altered beyond all recognition (think of the original TARP).
The open work space models of a digital age have altered beyond recognition what constitutes a uniform for the office, with suits now restricted to only the most traditional forms of employment and, perhaps, a day in court.
By the time they acquired the building, it had been altered beyond recognition.
