Examples of surveyor

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Five of the six contributing authors were military officers and surveyors.
He was accountant to the overseers and highway surveyors, and clerk to the local friendly society.
Map-makers and surveyors created the land as they "ruled" it.
By looking at the accounts of the first surveyors, we will describe this person insofar as he can be representative of others.
More and more the parameters for research in the industry are determined by a surveyor's world.
Although their role was still primarily that of surveyors and draughtsmen, engineers had introduced calculation to their methods since the eighteenth century.
The courts were rather eclectically historicist, not far removed in style from those being built by the local board surveyors in these years.
Until then architects will continue to design failures and our profession will continue to lose work to the surveyors.
More competent and certified mining engineers, mappers, surveyors and prospectors were needed - and then public health experts, water-supply engineers, and railway engineers as well.
Architects blamed owners for changing their minds, and owners blamed architects and surveyors for doing their sums wrongly.
Nursing homes are subject to surprise visits from surveyors, violations are reported, and results of these surveys become public information.
The exact sites of capture were recorded and flagged with surveyor's tape to assure release at the point of capture.
In the context of drives for economy, surveyors had to train local people in the art of using instruments to map the land.
The equipment used was a surveyor's level and a 14 ft staff.
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