1.   A growing body of evidence shows that alcohol molecules directly affect the ability of ion channels to open or close.

2.   Accent, tone, fluency and vocabulary can affect the ability of sender and receiver to understand or to be understood.

3.   Are past ground shakes affecting your ability to build faith for tomorrow?

4.   Conversely, the availability of different types of housing also affects the ability of persons and families forming separate households.

5.   It affects the ability to remember, hear, think and reason.

6.   Mineral, vitamin and blood-sugar levels have been repeatedly shown to affect ability to relax.

7.   Technical limitations are those that affect our ability to do what we set out to do.

8.   The county government had seen its operation lose customers and revenue, and this affected its ability to borrow money.

9.   Although the slump in financial markets affected the ability of some companies to raise cheap money, its impact on the economy at large was limited.