The phrase "ability to formulate a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's skill or capacity to create or develop something, often in a professional or academic context.
Example: "Her ability to formulate a comprehensive strategy for the project impressed the entire team."
Alternatives: "capacity to create a" or "skill in developing a".
But at her size, Henin's ability to formulate a strategy on the run is her greatest strength.
Mills dealt with significant party factionalism arising from a growing lack of faith in his ability to formulate a strategy to lead the NDC to victory in the forthcoming 2012 presidential and legislative elections.
The ability to formulate a total violence index using YRBS data provides a lens through which to evaluate violence prevention outreach efforts.
These issues present the greatest obstacles to our ability to formulate a modern robust method suitable for quantitative assessments of the chlorophyll concentration in a diverse range of water types.
Laurence Le Quesne argues that one of Jardine's greatest talents, and at the same time greatest weaknesses, was his ability to formulate a winning strategy without consideration of wider contexts such as the social aspect of the game.
Not knowing which particular genetic variant will sustain human-to-human transmission makes our ability to formulate a vaccine in advance all the more difficult.
The essential ingredients of entrepreneurship include the willingness to take calculated risks in terms of time equity, ability to formulate an effective team, creative skills to marshal needed resources, fundamental skills of building a solid business plan and the vision to recognize the opportunity.
The ability to formulate an appropriate prescription of exercise may be compromised if such an exercise test cannot be performed.
We must therefore admit that a lack of funds robs the ECB of the ability to formulate an independent and transparent policy.
In primary care where there is a lower prevalence of serious disease, a doctor's ability to formulate an appropriate differential diagnosis list, gather information to test these diagnostic hypotheses and then accept or reject diagnoses based on this appears to be of key importance.
In our study, the abilities to formulate a clear question, retrieve relevant literature, critical appraise study findings have improved significantly.
