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Simple sentences
They hate him because he gives them a mountain of homework.
The plants must have died because no one watered them.
The game was put off because of rain.
Because of his age, my grandfather doesn't hear well.
It was a long war because neither side would give in.
Because of heavy rain my car broke down.
Their trip was postponed because of the rain.
She can't go to the party because she doesn't have a babysitter.
Because I was scared.
My telephone service was cut off because of unpaid bills.
I do it because I want to.
Because he's sick, he can't come.
I'm drinking water because I'm thirsty.
It's because you don't want to be alone.
It's because you're a girl.
Every person who is alone is alone because they are afraid of others.
You're lucky because he didn't bite you.
We can't sleep because of the noise.
If you don't understand something, it's because you aren't aware of its context.
I slept a little during lunch break because I was so tired.
When you send a telegram, brevity is essential because you will be charged for every word.
A miser hoards money not because he is prudent but because he is greedy.
Look how they all speak ill of me behind my back because I married a woman thirty years younger than me.
We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility for it.
My interest is in the future because I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.
The airplane was redirected to Munich, because of the fog.
That's because you're a girl.
Movie subtitles
He must be hurt because of me.
Going off stealing things Mom, I'm so embarrassed to death because of you.
I call because I wanted to ask you something.
Do you guys die because of a woman?
Do you die because of a person?
The entire world is moving because of you.
She rarely appeared to the public because she was a student.
A distinction is needed precisely because we are true siblings.
Because I don't want to lie to myself any longer.
Or. Because he's Zero?
Is it because of our indirect contact and what happened at Kamine Island?
And it's a story we ignore at our peril, because today, after half a millennium of tilting westwards, the world seems inexorably to be tilting to the East.
Dick Whittington had to watch where he put his feet, because the streets of his city were paved with something very different from gold.
Was it because a war in Annam, modern-day Vietnam, turned out to be more expensive than anyone had expected?
That is more easily said than done, because where to hide?
Henk hacl finished his studies, except for the final exam, which he could not do, because the University was closed.
But back then there was only a small number of participants, because students could not attend and also because travel was difficult during the war.
Because emission from that wavelength went practically unhindered by the clouds of dust, so emission from all parts oi the Galaxy would be visible!
I am a bit confused by the colour, because this white colour does not fit.
No surprise, because the Americans had a huge advance because they had a lot of experience with microwave techniques, which they had developed during the war.
Because they were inaccurate and had a wrong reference point.
Because the Earth rotates, one had to correct the position every three minutes.
Stuff like that is easy to get because the screws turn a blind eye to those kind of things.
Because it was like I couldn't think straight.
What makes you say that? Because I betrayed Nick, and he's the only guy who can stand up to freakin' Frankie.
I'm talking about, it's easy for kids to get sucked in 'because it seems like easy money.
You sell peanut butter sandwiches because I let you.
Yeah, but now that we're running it, we can do it right, with epi-injector sites and fair prices, because the way Frankie and Mickey were doing it, someone was bound to get hurt, and not just the allergic kids.
Kids can't just play anywhere they want, because the yard is carved up into a whole bunch of, like, territories.
Except, they let Danny Steele play there, but that's only because he smells like one of those scented candles.
Because they're a security risk.
We did what we did because they took away all the other option.
Because now in order to restore the peace, we have to hurt them.
They water balloon bombed us on our own turf, just because we won't let them on our soccer field.
And now, because of Frankie and his crew, I can't even play on the soccer pitch.
Because you are innocent.
News and current affairs
This did not happen, because neither the Western Allies nor the Soviet Union supported it.
Most economists failed to foresee the economic dynamics that actually led to the crisis, because they failed to pay enough attention to the rapid increase in US total debt.
Because rapid fiscal deterioration now has investors worrying about capital losses on US government securities, devaluation would make foreigners more hesitant to finance America's budget deficit.
Expansion will also create a better Europe because enlargement widens the territory in which countries are committed to NATO's political values, including individual rights as well as the rights of minorities.
Correct, because the NPT was born with a loophole.
We now know that the professor had broken into his own home, with the help of his chauffeur, because the door was jammed.
And many die simply because there are no cures or vaccines, because so little of the world's valuable research talent and limited resources is devoted to addressing the diseases of the poor.
Because the poor have so little money to spend, drug companies, under current arrangements, have little incentive to do research on the diseases that afflict them.
Government finances health-care research because improved medicines are a public good.
The patent system may even have adverse effects on innovation, because, while the most important input into any research is prior ideas, the patent system encourages secrecy.
We kill other species not because we must, but because we are too negligent to do otherwise.
Because these activities' costs are so high and their benefits so low, stopping them would be easy.
At the start of the crisis, many people likened it to 1982 or 1973, which was reassuring, because both dates refer to classical cyclical downturns.
Because the Democrats in Congress have an almost religious commitment to preserving, intact, America's principal welfare programs for senior citizens, Social Security and Medicare, the legislation does not touch either of them.
As the boom turned to bust, the losses threatened to overwhelm the capacity of the Spanish state, and the problem became European, because it threatened the very survival of the euro.
They are hungry because they lack the ability to buy high-yield seeds, fertilizer, irrigation equipment, and other tools needed to increase productivity.
That is because we have created a patent system that gives innovators a temporary monopoly over what they create, which encourages them to hoard their knowledge, lest they help a competitor.
International cooperation has increased markedly, in part because governments that cannot agree on many things can agree on the need to cooperate in this area.