"allow an understanding" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the process by which someone is able to gain more insight into a particular subject. For example, "By talking to experts, I was able to allow an understanding of the current economic situation."
This will allow an understanding of the real and potential power of modern cancer therapeutics.
Lacking direction, you almost lose sense of what place meant to the Bloomsberries; however, paintings, drawings and home furnishings by the group allow an understanding to emerge.
Interviews with political actors and planners allow an understanding of how politics has virtually eroded, if not eliminated, a sound planning system.
These models offer a valuable advance in conservation planning because they allow an understanding of the effects of local actions on regional growth, which is necessary for translating regional goals into local actions.
The sub-factors provide an operational definition of the factors, useful to assess the characteristics of the company and to identify possible single interventions, while the affinity areas allow an understanding of the main dimensions that a decision maker should consider in an intervention policy.
The absorption edges deduced from the linear part of the (αhν 2 versus hν curve allow an understanding of the energy bandgap for the InSb nanowire, which is about 0.208 eV and is consistent with the value obtained directly from the absorption spectrum.
Today experimental chemistry provides innumerable examples, and theoretical chemistry allows an understanding of their meaning.
In this work a further investigation of the water transport properties through Pebax®2533 and derivative films allowed an understanding of their potential applications.
The course starts from an overview of basic optical principles allowing an understanding of microscopic image formation and common contrast modalities such as dark field, phase, and DIC.
The key issues were embedded into the four scenarios, allowing an understanding of how the four different futures described in these scenarios might affect transport demand.
