Sentence examples for were but to from inspiring English sources
I remember her having these really cool shoes – I don't even remember what they were – but to seeing someone running in shoes was just unbelievable.
"We're looking not to just fix things to the way they were, but to fix them so they won't break again," Mr. Murphy said.
Young people who sign up for exchanges won't be getting access to government-run healthcare (if only they were!), but to privately run insurance.
"It's definitely an improvement from where they were, but to be honest, it screams 'in-house' to me," said Ms. Eisenberg, whose clients include the Museum of Modern Art and the Food Network.
"We still know there's a lot of work left to do, not just to get back to where we were but to increase the diversity far beyond what it was in 1997," said Terry Lightfoot, a spokesman for the University of California.
The award for the week's best dressed goes not to any pedestrian, as stylish as the ones here were, but to Mother Nature, decked resplendently throughout town: magnolias at the Frick Collection and Central Park, forsythia along the park's transverses, fruit trees on the streets and hyacinths in Bryant Park.
Life's not to be, but to do.
But that is to jump to conclusions.
There never was to be but one".
Not want to be but must be.
