Sentence examples for it gets by on from inspiring English sources

It gets by on its production value and the strength of another superb star turn from Jessica Rothe, but it's a disappointment compared to its unexpectedly winning predecessor.

You'd think this would become irksome at feature-film length, but it gets by on sheer oddness as its eponymous lead character, a student with a pet llama and the worst hairstyle since Sean Penn in Carlito's Way, and his equally inept relatives make their way through Idaho's suburban wilderness with strange jobs - milk tester and salesman for Bust Must Plus, a breast enhancer, among them.

Instead, it gets by on donations and grants.

It gets by on a meager budget of $10 million a year, or about 5 cents per voter.

Without a centralized body like a diocese or union of congregations, it gets by on a shoestring.

It gets by on less than $3 million a year, compared to, say, the cost of a single shuttle mission, which NASA has estimated to be $450 million (other estimates have been considerably higher).

It got by on the pure rush of its combat, which admittedly now feels a bit dated.

G.M. could have installed a smaller V-8, the 5.3-liter, but chose not to because the 6-liter's higher torque — 367 pound-feet — lets it get by on four cylinders more often.

Arthur's Landing could almost be excused if it got by on The View — if it coasted, like the ferries that skim by its windows — and by some accounts that is what it did for much of its 17-year history.

He is, he said, trying to make the government more transparent by posting every bill online before it gets voted on by parliament.

Now, Monk says, the only way his art can be completed is if it gets skated on by the masses. .