The phrase "allows an understanding" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing how something facilitates comprehension or insight into a subject or concept.
Example: "The detailed explanation allows an understanding of the complex theory behind quantum mechanics."
Alternatives: "enables comprehension" or "facilitates insight".
Today experimental chemistry provides innumerable examples, and theoretical chemistry allows an understanding of their meaning.
This allows an understanding to be built based on listening to participants' ideas (Creswell [2003]).
Analysing this wide variety of return motivations allows an understanding of return beyond policy-oriented dichotomies of voluntary and involuntary return.
One of the cutting-edge visual non-invasive methods is medical imaging, which allows an understanding of the interior organs of the body without any surgical intervention.
The model allows an understanding of the sector's behaviour under the latest policies of the Spanish government, thus helping to design future public policies.
Structure from Motion (SfM) uses the principle that movement through a scene allows an understanding of the shape of the scene in three dimensions, in the same way as walking through a room allows one to visualise the space and objects placed within it.
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.
This will allow an understanding of the real and potential power of modern cancer therapeutics.
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.
Interviews with political actors and planners allow an understanding of how politics has virtually eroded, if not eliminated, a sound planning system.
In this work a further investigation of the water transport properties through Pebax®2533 and derivative films allowed an understanding of their potential applications.
