Example sentences of "produced the first [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He duly produced the first work on natural history to use this new technique , Zoological Illustrations ( 6 volumes , 1820–33 ) and at the same time , Exotic Conchology ( 1821–2 ) .
2 But when Strawberry reached under the seat and produced the first bottle of an apparently endless supply of Star Tiger rice spirit we realised it was not going to be that kind of adventure .
3 The sky above them lit again , and the next rumble produced the first spattering of rain .
4 As Superintendent in Bolton he produced the first issue of The Deaf Quarterly News as a local news-sheet of four pages .
5 The Iron Age also produced the first evidence of polled cattle in Britain .
6 In the mid-Sixties , as a prominent if unlikely member of London 's ‘ underground ’ , he produced the first single by the Pink Floyd .
7 It is particularly ironic that a ruler in the age of Machiavelli should have caused such obsession with personal morality , or immorality — not least because her reign produced the first politician in the British Isles , her secretary William Maitland of Lethington , who was described as ‘ machiavellian ’ .
8 Arthur Eddy , an American critic who in 1914 produced the first book in English on Cubism , Cubists and Post-Impressionism , wrote that ‘ the comparison that Picabia is fondest of making is that of absolute music ’ .
9 Leeds ( Assistant-Keeper at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford from 1908 ) produced the first typology of a form of Early Anglo-Saxon metalwork , a brooch type ( 1912 ) .
10 Around 1109 on the death of Fulk le Réchin , a monk , perhaps the abbot Eudes of the great house of Marmoutier , produced the first version of the Gesta , a series of brief biographies of the counts .
11 In 1970 , the Library Association produced the first set of specific standards for school libraries that Great Britain had ever had , embodying the library 's new name , and including an analysis of implications for finance , planning , staffing and service which was immediately recognized as being incomplete .
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