Habits are formed because the tissues of our brains are capable of being modified by use, and of so retaining the effects of this modification that the same act is easier of performance each succeeding time.
Habit once formed has no way of being modified unless in some way attention is called to it, for a habit left to itself becomes more and more firmly fixed.
As long as habit is being modified in some degree, as long as we are improving in our ways of doing things, interest will still cling to the process; but let us once settle into an unmodified rut, and interest quickly fades away.
Capability of being modified; state or quality of being modifiable.
The faculty of perceiving or of being modified, as well by itself as exterior objects which the brain enjoys is sometimes designated by the term understanding.
Indeed, it is not to be doubted that man's temperament is capable of being corrected, of being modified, of being changed, by causes as physical as the matter of which it is constituted.
Defn: Capability of being modified; state or quality of being modifiable.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being modified" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
