The phrase "allowed us to begin" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when indicating that something has made it possible for a group to start a task or process.
Example: "The funding we received allowed us to begin the project ahead of schedule."
Alternatives: "enabled us to start" or "permitted us to commence".
This allowed us to begin to build a model of how the Silk Road Group worked.
The emergence of the letter allowed us to begin to understand the complex forces that formed his identity.
The distinction is not perfect, but the working definition allowed us to begin investigating our empathic capacities and the barriers that stand in the way.
The great sensitivities of the Chandra X-ray Observatory and XMM-Newton have allowed us to begin to explore the X-ray emission from galaxies at moderate to high redshift.
Nevertheless, our robust data base allowed us to begin taking the measure of Public-Private Partnership Hospitals in VC.
This allowed us to begin decommissioning all data centers as we started out with 93 and are now down to less than thirty.
Textpresso for Mouse (http://www.textpresso.org/mouse/) is one of the organism-specific sites currently in production, allowing us to begin exploring effective ways to use Textpresso in mammalian curation pipelines.
In an effort to investigate the significance of this bias, and in acknowledgement of recent work, which has shown increased protein production in vitro using codon-optimized genes [2], [41], [42], we used our rabbit/CRPV DNA infectivity model to allow us to begin to study synonymous codon usage via alterations in the CRPV genome.
In addition to the conceptual model of the system and identification of the key system users, we believe that we should use an iterative, phased approach, that will allow us to begin making measurements of the NHII, while we continue learning "how best to make these measurements".
This work allows us to begin to answer questions about which forms are actually used in scientific discourse and to harness these for human curation and bioinformatics applications on data in the scientific literature.
Our approach provides a novel technique for flexibly capturing diverse phenotypes and allows us to begin to answer the question about which phenotype forms are actually used in the scientific literature and how frequently.
