The phrase "ability to utilise" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's skill or capacity to make effective use of something, often in a professional or academic context.
Example: "Her ability to utilise advanced software tools has significantly improved the team's productivity."
Alternatives: "capacity to use" or "skill in employing".
Without the ability to utilise the potential of Area C, the economic space will remain fragmented and stunted.
In turn this has affected our self-esteem and the ability to utilise and explore our skills and talents.
"Pessimism about Africans' ability to utilise aid is very deep, reflecting an amazing reservoir of deep prejudices.
This allows the ability to utilise extracellular matrix proteins alone to modulate SMC phenotype without any exogenous factors added.
There is a benefit for athletes merely from being at altitude, which enhances the body's ability to utilise oxygen, but there are other pluses here.
Activity of the microbial community, as represented by phenol degradation potential and ability to utilise a range of substrates, was found to be influenced by the plume.
Water poverty in the Niger River Basin is a function of physical constraints affecting access and supply, and institutional arrangements affecting the ability to utilise the water resource.
The survival of these populations may depend on their ability to utilise agricultural or other matrix habitats between forest fragments, but this is poorly known.
All of these mechanisms have involved robust financial modelling and assessment of our ability to utilise the social investment – we've needed to be confident of our ability to repay the investment, either through income generation or future asset disposals.
As a widow taking her son on the road to pursue her singing career, she found the script unique for the time in its ability to utilise "a woman's point of view".
The fixation of positively charged residues at position 110 112 in the βF βG loop of VP1 of SAT1 isolates is thought to correlate with the acquisition of the ability to utilise alternative glycosaminoglycan (GAG) molecules for cell entry.
