Example sentences of "through on [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Of course , some were able to pull through on sheer physical strength , quickness and resilience , but there is evidence to suggest that shrewdness or guile were useful properties to have when it came to self-preservation .
2 There are , however , many other situations in atomic and nuclear physics where there is some kind of barrier that particles should not be able to penetrate on classical principles but that they are able to tunnel through on quantum-mechanical principles .
3 It has gone unreported , except occasionally and often in a needlessly partisan way through the accounts of western aid workers or visitors passing through on other business .
4 His studies of more than 10,000 executives in the past three decades persuade him that , unless our line of work calls fundamentally on our buzzgiving skills , we are unlikely to shine at it — even though we may muddle through on quasi-automatic dexterity alone .
5 And it came through on red Gordon !
6 but that all took I think , when you 're older when you go grey it 's , it , you look softer and you get away with the grey coming through on white hair .
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