Example sentences of "to have been made by " in BNC.

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1 The accusation was declared to have been made by Hugh 's widow and family ‘ from ill will and hatred , because Roger was reproached concerning the perambulation of the forest in those parts not properly performed ’ .
2 The first explicit statement in Greek literature that , although individual things are subject to change and decay , the world itself is eternal appears to have been made by the philosopher Heraclitus about 500 BC .
3 The same sort of calculation seems to have been made by the producers of both Brief History and Soul , the recent BBC2 threeparter presented by Anthony Clare .
4 Well over 30 years later , renewed speculation as to the cause of Mozart 's premature death was prompted by an extraordinary confession said to have been made by Salieri — then in his 70s , extremely ill , and mentally unstable .
5 At his barracks in London 's Knightsbridge yesterday , the major refused to comment on the new allegations which are understood to have been made by a junior officer or private .
6 From it you can walk to Itxassou 's other half , which is clustered round the church , about a kilometre away and within sight of the defile known as the Pas de Roland , an opening in the rock said to have been made by the hoofs of this luckless paladin 's horse ( but more of Roland in the appropriate place , when we come to Roncevaux ) .
7 It relied both on the circumstances of the shooting and on a confession alleged to have been made by telephone by the defendant to Paulette 's husband , Jimmy Zaidie ( ‘ Zaidie ’ ) immediately after the shooting , and also on threats previously made by the defendant to kill Paulette , as alleged by the prosecution and as testified to in evidence by Zaidie and by Daphne Matadial ( ‘ Matadial ’ ) , Paulette 's sister .
8 It may be noticed also , first , that no actual misrepresentation seems to have been made by Duval to his wife , notwithstanding that he had concealed from her material facts and , second , that the pressure he exerted on her to persuade her to sign does not seem to have been excessively overbearing or to have been accompanied by the threats or false promises or intimidation that are sometimes the hall marks of undue influence .
9 The essentially global scope of this issue is captured by a remark reputed to have been made by the Netherlands Foreign Minister to the Foreign Minister of Brazil : ‘ If you do n't stop cutting down your forests my country will disappear . ’
10 The capital of Kenya , Nairobi , can truly be said to have been made by its station .
11 The inventor of the German action is not known but it was used in a square piano signed ‘ Gottfried Silbermann , fevr. 1749 ’ This piano is more likely to have been made by Johann Gottfried Silbermann ( 1722–63 ) rather than by his more famous uncle , Gottfried ( 1683–1753 ) .
12 This brass is thought to have been made by a Flemish craftsman , and depicts a woman sitting up in a four poster bed with her children around her , and twins in a cradle alongside and at the foot of the inscription Lambarde had inscribed " No lady was more full of reverence towards God than she " .
13 It all however came to nothing as the entertainments and payments were proved not to have been made by Dixon but by his father , the Provost of Dumbarton .
14 The main issues before the Appeal Court were the authenticity of confessions said to have been made by the defendants while under detention , and the conduct of the police .
15 Mr JAD Gilliland QC ( sitting as a deputy judge ) permitted the defendants to rescind a contract for the sale of land as a result of a misrepresentation made before contract , despite the fact that clause 10 of the sale agreement provided that the agreement contained all the terms of the contract between the vendor and the purchaser and that the purchaser did not enter into the agreement in reliance on any warranty or representation made or purported to have been made by or on behalf of the vendor other than the vendor 's solicitor 's written replies to enquiries raised by the purchaser 's solicitor .
16 I believe the statements alleged to have been made by Mr Atkinson do not reflect the views of the Durham Association of Boys ' Clubs .
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