From what you tell me, he's by way of being the brains of the family..
Why they hesitated I never could tell, unless they did it by way of a joke.
I always go over the wall, by way of the plum tree, said Matilda.
... hope is that we have a similar way of making transparent what ...
... she had no way of finding out about it. So we fixed that. And that's an example of ...