the only time the ceremony has been interrupted in the last 700 years
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was
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during the Second World War
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Value/Location
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Process
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Token/Location
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Subject
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Finite
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Complement
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Reasoning:
If 'a Complement is an element within the Residue that has the potential of being Subject but is not' (Halliday & Matthiessen 2004: 122), and 'an Adjunct is an element that has not got the potential of being Subject' (op cit: 123), then the 'circumstance as participant' during the Second World War functions as Complement, not Adjunct, despite the fact that a Complement 'is typically realised by a nominal group' (ibid), since it has the potential of being Subject, as the following agnate clause demonstrates:
during the Second World War was the only time the ceremony has been interrupted in the last 700 years (wasn't it?)
during the Second World War
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was
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the only time the ceremony has been interrupted in the last 700 years
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Token/Location
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Process
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Value/Location
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Subject
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Finite
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Complement
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See also Fig. 5-26 (op cit: 244).
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