[Q]: How does the sentence end?

The doctor had to give the old patient steroids instead of the hormones because the

[A]: steroids were more effective.

[Q]: How does the sentence end?

My old knives would not cut through the bones because the

[A]: bones were very strong.

[Q]: How does the sentence end?

Eric listened to the radio every morning for Joel's deejayed show, as

[A]:
Joel was a competent deejay.