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.
... she had no way of finding out about it. So we fixed that. And that's an example of ...
... is because there isn't a better way of dealing with the pre-existing conditions problem, ...