The phrase "allow for narrative" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the need to create space or opportunity for storytelling or narrative elements in a particular context, such as writing, film, or presentations.
Example: "In order to engage the audience effectively, the presentation must allow for narrative that connects the data to real-life experiences."
Alternatives: "make room for storytelling" or "provide space for narrative".
Participants were selected from those with the lowest quality of life scores from a previous community based survey of individuals with established IBD [ 22] to allow for narratives that drew upon a variety of experiences in terms of relapse frequency, disease severity and medicine taking.
The interviews were semi-structured, allowing for narrative aspects of the informants' reflections to have a strong presence.
They're still serious, intelligent and well written by the standards of television crime drama, and their running times — 100 to 200 minutes devoted to a single story — allow for a narrative complexity unknown in American TV.
But even if we allow for hypothetical narratives to do this work, it remains unclear just what role a narrative actually plays in our practical concerns.
Both public and private life is much more complex than that, in reality – too much has to be left out of the account to allow for a compelling narrative to take place.
Skillful lighting allowed for theatricality, narrative, and a new emphasis on structure and space.
Yet not all opinions deserve to be weighted equally, and, though editing may create opportunities for bias, it also allows for context, narrative structure, and editorial pushback.
However, while allowing for alternatives, narrative research is not a relativist exercise devoid of methodological rigour or "trustworthiness" [ 32].
They all get peppy music-hall songs detailing their woes, which are unfortunately more stock than specific and don't allow for much of a narrative arc.
Conversely, when plot information is less coherent, the frontoparietal control network is thought to allow for a more effortful search for narrative coherence through a more top-down deployment of attention.
