Sentence examples for greatly modifying from inspiring English sources

The introduction of large wood-chip mills in the area since the late 20th century stirred great controversy, because those mills are capable of stripping thousands of acres of forestland in a relatively short time span, greatly modifying wildlife habitats, patterns of water runoff, and the rate of soil erosion.

This increases the rate of the decomposition process by accelerating the stabilisation of organic matter and greatly modifying its physical and biochemical properties (Dominguez 2011).

Cold plasma treatment of a material can graft – in a short time and with high yield – a wide range of chemical functions to the CNT surface, greatly modifying its reactivity.

As pointed out by Aizen et al. [3], super-generalist aliens could actually become central nodes of highly invaded webs, increasing nestedness and contributing to the persistence of many species [5], but at the expense of greatly modifying network architecture during the invasion process.

Evolutionary events of this type create paralogous sequences that may later be reshuffled in the diploidization process [ 21], greatly modifying the structure of the genome [ 22, 23] and therefore also the distribution of microsatellite sequences [ 21].

For the global analysis of all nine yeast genomes, an increase of this parameter from 10 to 15 drastically decreased the background noise (61% diminution in the number of tagged CDSs, from 307 to 120), without greatly modifying the number of detected TGAs (8.1% loss, from 356 TGAs to 327).

The other big land deals are moving ahead, though greatly modified after community pressure.

In swimming and sessile forms, however, the foot is greatly reduced or greatly modified.

The laryngeal apparatus may be greatly modified for the production of complex vocalizations.

From about 1975, migratory flows were greatly modified, the most immediate cause being economic.

The limbs and girdles have been greatly modified with locomotor adaptations.