Example sentences of "aircraft [was/were] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NATO ships were in the Adriatic Sea to help enforce the UN arms embargo , and NATO " early warning " ( AWACS ) aircraft were providing the UN with information to monitor the ban on military flights over Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 2 | Enemy aircraft were strafing the column and the road was congested with refugees . |
| 3 | The aircraft was designated the W-3 and initial flight tests were carried out at Abbotsinch near Glasgow on July 9 , 1936 . |
| 4 | In some of the more elaborate biplanes it was not always easy to tell which way the loads were going and it was a stock joke at one time that the way to check the rigging of a certain aircraft was to put a canary between the wings ; if it got out something was wrong . |
| 5 | While the aircraft was unloaded the crew was spirited away by car through the back roads of the airport by a civilian with a machine-gun , who took them to the old Sheraton Hotel and offered them cakes and coffee . |
| 6 | My memory is n't what it was ; but I do remember that at the time the aircraft was considered the fastest in the Middle East . |
| 7 | Once loaded on the Queen Mary , the aircraft was transported the 2–3 miles to the docks then hoisted to the carrier flight deck . |