Glasgow and Liverpool and Manchester and Birmingham were becoming great towns, and the factory system was being developed, profoundly Modifying the old relation of the industrial classes.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
The concentration of thought upon the Peace Conference was also exercising in another direction a Modifying influence upon Sinn Fein.
"The Evolution of Sinn Fein"
Robert Mitchell Henry
We find that there is going on a Modifying process of the kind alleged as the source of specific differences, a process which, though slow, does, in time, produce changes-a process which to all appearance would produce in millions of years any amount of changes.
"The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer"
John Gerard