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The phrase "allows to do something" is not correct in standard written English.
It should be used in contexts where permission or capability is being expressed, but it requires a subject and an object to be grammatically correct.
Example: "The new software allows users to do something more efficiently."
Alternatives: "enables to do something" or "permits to do something".
Idiom
In no mood to do something.
To not feel like doing something; to not want to do something.
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Pegg Hopefully we'll be allowed to do something different.
"I'm not allowed to do something like delete the Lincoln Tunnel," he said.
It's like you're a kid and are being allowed to do something you aren't supposed to do.
"I think it is really important that we are allowed to do something with how we feel, whether it is writing, painting or music.
That is wrong, as much as saying that people with a history of broken arms shouldn't be allowed to do something".
The European commission has accepted that the UK is facing exceptional circumstances due to high levels of immigration and must be allowed to do something about it – assuming the British people vote to stay in the EU.
It seemed likely to the Register, a slangy and sharp tech website, that the health secretary had simply misunderstood the field: "telling teenagers they are not allowed to do something in order to stop them from doing it has been a uniquely unsuccessful strategy for parents and governments alike throughout history".
Little Seven believes that if the addressee (viz. Chen San), as a less likely candidate for a certain task, can be allowed to do something, he surely can get the permission to do so.
We usually deal with [name redacted] but he isn't allowed to do something we want him to do for a story because of their ethics policy.
We are allowed to do something else besides camp".
Don't ever tell me I'm not "allowed" to do something.
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