How To Use Surveyor In A Sentence

As surveyor and topographer, he took on the task of making sketches of the stockades.
Cleland was occupied with his visual recorder, surveyor, gravitometer, and whatever else he could wield in the saddle, or simply with gazing around. Starfarers
Der Oberste oder Generalfeltmesser Surveyor general und der oberst Einzieher Receyvers general welche grad zur selbigen Zeit, wegen ihren Geschäften zu Londen sich befunden, und von dem Königlichen Comite so wohl als von den Lords propr. Christoph von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern. Edited with an Historical Introduction and an English Translation by Vincent H. Todd, Ph.D. University of Illinois in Cooperation with Julius Goebel, Ph.D., Professor of Germanic Languag
I have instructed a Building Surveyor to inspect the works and am awaiting his report.
The surveyor conducts one inspection and provides a fuller report than is required to ensure compliance with section 13.

Should we hire a marine surveyor to inspect the boat once it's returned to us?
Mumma pulled up a map that showed where methane had been found and where the Mars Global Surveyor, a spacecraft that orbited Mars from 1997 to 2006, found the weak remnants of what had once been a strong magnetic field. First Contact
This new website can book them a berth in a marina, get them an insurance quote and identify the nearest marine surveyor.
If you have a semi-detached or terraced house, you will need a party wall specialist surveyor to check the work is done correctly. Times, Sunday Times
Hire a marine surveyor or engine mechanic if necessary.
I would ask a fiberglass specialist at a local marina or even a surveyor to look at it.
The owner and the "surveyor" were the people responsible, and the plans, directions and details given to the workmen were astonishingly meager. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today
On the positive side, our buyers are sticking with the programme, and have appointed a new surveyor.
Visit the property you are considering buying, preferably with an architect or surveyor. Times, Sunday Times
When the war was over, I became a chartered surveyor and settled down to normality. Times, Sunday Times
Ken Ryan, a qualified quantity surveyor, spent 15 years as head of a construction company in Zimbabwe.
The system comprise laser, external ray system, vacuum chamber, AES and emission electron surveyor.
Armed with cheap satellite-tracking handsets, teams of civilian surveyors are out in the field recording casual journeys and sharing geodata with each other to produce their own maps.
Sketch maps were sometimes drawn in the large community meetings, but many surveyors reported greater success working with smaller groups of experienced woodsmen.
Darwen's top building surveyor enjoyed a pint to mark his retirement.
The grandest, the undermanagers, overmen, engineers and surveyors lived nearest the colliery in streets with names: Thompson, Grant, West View.
Sales activity fell by 11 per cent in the quarter to August and surveyors noticed a rise in the amount of unsold property on the market.
Chartered Surveyors said that 1.8 million new homes for renting were needed over the next decade to keep up with demand as ownership becomes increasingly unaffordable. Times, Sunday Times
My father was second-generation chartered surveyor. Times, Sunday Times
Surveyors say the fault line is capable of generating a major earthquake once in a hundred years.
Residential solicitors and valuation surveyors are colluding to ensure that the current unfair and expensive system is maintained.
After more farmers, pastoralists and settlers had moved north, several government surveyors visited the Flinders Ranges.
He then returned to New Zealand and his peacetime job as a civil engineer and land surveyor. Times, Sunday Times
The system comprise laser, external ray system, vacuum chamber, AES and emission electron surveyor.
_Vanguard, Explorer, Discoverer; Pioneer III, _ which discovered the Van Allen layer in 1958, and _Pioneer IV, _ which went zooming past the Moon the following year and took up a solar orbit, and _Mariner II, _which got within twenty-one thousand miles of Venus in 1962, and _Ranger_ and _Surveyor_ and all the rest. Asimov's Science Fiction
Williams thinks surveyors are often responsible for today's map errors.
The council has employed surveyors to investigate the site and carry out borehole tests before repair work begins.
The fitting shown above was reduced to something resembling Swiss cheese by stray current, according to the surveyor who examined it.
Haines made his name as a surveyor in the Persian Gulf, and was appointed assistant surveyor in 1826.
The first time many Pembrokeshire farmers knew a pipeline might be crossing their land was when surveyors and analysts turned up unannounced.
The process required teams to coordinate with each other from opposite sides of the canyon, with a rodman, or rigger, perched on one wall holding a fifteen-foot pole with a flag at one end—used to probe to the back of the caves perforating the rock—while a surveyor across the river fixed him in the crosshairs of his camera-equipped theodolite. Colossus
Your lender will then send their own surveyor to value the property.
Mr. Neil Cummings was a building surveyor with 23 years' experience as such.
Yoder's group made the bulge measurements by monitoring the motion of the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft as it orbited the planet over the past 3 years.
The surveyor looked in the dense thicket of rhododendron that screened the garden from the road. Times, Sunday Times
Surveyors would place an alidade on the plane table and sight along it to a particular object, then draw a line to indicate the bearing. Book review: Thunderer by Felix Gilman
Nearby, the intact Surveyor 5 withstood all odds and made space history by managing to perform an alpha particle spectrogram of the soil while withstanding temperatures considerably greater than the boiling point. Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast: March 19-21, 2010 | Universe Today
The surveyor's report didn't highlight anything untoward.
When he was 16 he was turned down for a job as a surveyor with the coal board. Times, Sunday Times
Following an on - site inspection, the surveyor prepared a written report on the property.
'Twas for that some danged yellow-legged surveyor give him the name, an 'ut shtuck. The Winning of Barbara Worth
The doomed King Charles I's surveyor, Abraham van der Doort, for instance, committed suicide after misplacing one of 3,000 miniatures.
Following an on - site inspection, the surveyor prepared a written report on the property.
As surveyor and topographer, he took on the task of making sketches of the stockades.
I would suggest that before anyone parts with money that the land be the subject of an independent valuation by a chartered surveyor. Times, Sunday Times
A bunch of men was clustered around a surveyor's theodolite.
Since this was a team of experienced surveyors, work was begun at once and, with the assistance of our geomorphologist, dr. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Territorial Survey 1
The surveyor will therefore require a knowledge of the contracts available in order to advise his client.
The franchiser also advises on location; outlets benefit from bulk stock purchasing with discounts of up to 20 per cent and have lease negotiation packages provided by the group chartered surveyor.
So, who is this marine surveyor, this person upon whom you are placing your trust?
The new building will include facilities for visiting surveyors, offices, rescue team equipment, a garage for three vehicles and a workshop.
The offices of the two ministers of the law were at about equal distance, and resort was had to a surveyor's chain, to ascertain which was nearest.
He trained and worked as a surveyor, but, because of the Depression, tried his luck on the goldfields of South Westland.
Selectmen of New-Gloucester, of the time of running said lines, that they, said Selectmen may be present if they see fit, and to make returns to the General Assembly of the doings of the said surveyor and chainmen as soon as may be, and the charge and expence of doing the aforesaid service to be paid by the petitioners and their associates. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
Engineers' and quantity surveyors' reports have been sent off, and it is a matter for the insurers as to how they will progress the matter.
Following an on - site inspection, the surveyor prepared a written report on the property.
Trees were crashing down around either side of the campsite as hillsides slipped away in the deluge of rain - all in a day's work for a surveyor of the time.
Engineers, foremen, surveyors and labourers typically tend to circulate between the main industry players on daily, weekly, monthly and unfixed contracts.
Surveyors carried out a valuation on / of our house.
When the war was over, I became a chartered surveyor and settled down to normality. Times, Sunday Times
It paid for a report from a chartered surveyor who concluded that the cracks were not caused by subsidence. Times, Sunday Times
Some will be working as surveyors, architects and engineers. Times, Sunday Times
There was a catch: All grants and purchases had to be platted by a licensed surveyor who was paid according to an official schedule of fees, or the claims could not be recorded and patented. George Washington’s First War
The surveyors, in particular, are much more concerned with the soil of the province and its 'limitation' and 'centuriation', than with the arrangements of any individual town, and, whatever their value for extramural boundaries, [116] throw no light on streets and 'insulae'. Ancient Town-Planning
Leake used didactic approaches to teach the surveyors how to administer questionnaires and register oral responses.
The surveyor wrote to successful grant applicants touting for custom.
Passenger revenue was calculated using population figures, surveyors' road traffic counts and the passenger rates of similar lines.
Arrange to have the surveyor on board when the boat is sea trialed so running systems can be checked underway.
The government hadn't supplied the surveyors with tents, so they rigged bivouacs to sleep in, toasted food over the fire and munched on hard square ship's biscuits.
Plantation "of James I., had been turned over exclusively to British settlers, whose" cagework "houses, and four acres of garden ground each, had elicited the approval of the surveyor Pynnar, twenty years before. A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete
Old Swan, and there to Michell and staid while he and she dressed themselves, and here had a 'baiser' or two of her, whom I love mightily; and then took them in a sculler (being by some means or other disappointed of my own boat) to W.ite Hall, and so with them to W.stminster, Sir W. Coventry, Bruncker and I all the morning together discoursing of the office business, and glad of the Controller's business being likely to be put into better order than formerly, and did discourse of many good things, but especially of having something done to bringing the Surveyor's matters into order also. Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 49: January 1666-67
In 1908, the cave company decided to employ some surveyors to try and find a new entrance.
He sacrificed a safe career as a chartered surveyor to train horses. Times, Sunday Times
Cap'n Sproul at that moment had his fist up ready to spack it down into his palm to add emphasis to some particularly violent observation he was just then making to Mr. Tate, highway "surveyor" in Tumble-dick District. The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul
Long distance buyers can hire a marine surveyor located near the auction site to evaluate the boat and report on its condition.
Palin spox: Targets on SarahPAC map were actually 'surveyor's symbols' Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
The pull of journalism was incessant, but filial loyalty led him to qualify as a property surveyor.
A former female student, now a chartered surveyor, had similar tales. Times, Sunday Times
The surveyor will therefore require a knowledge of the contracts available in order to advise his client.
Your surveyor or solicitor can attend the sale and bid on your behalf.
A surveyor's report found that the smallpox isolation hospital at Winterburn was in a poor state.
Hire a marine surveyor to inspect the boat prior to purchase.
For mathematics, at that time with us, were scarce looked on as academical studies, but rather mechanical - as the business of traders, merchants, seamen, carpenters, surveyors of lands and the like.
The summer that I worked as a surveyor's chainman for my old high school math teacher, I discovered my disinterest in that sort of precision, and I rejoiced when the long, hot and sultry summer ended, allowing me to return to my college studies and more literary pursuits. Spiders and Wasps
His father was county surveyor for Powys and his mother a housewife. Times, Sunday Times
He joined the council in 1975 as a valuation surveyor and was appointed assistant director of property services in 1987, and director in 1991.
For each property, a team of surveyors collected on-site data, another team collected descriptive data from county courthouses, and survey questionnaires were mailed to the property owners.
The surveyor conducts one inspection and provides a fuller report than is required to ensure compliance with section 13.
Britain's only publicly listed quantity surveyor has launched a second investigation into bribery allegations after new evidence emerged of alleged deception by a former employee. Times, Sunday Times
In 1806 the deputy surveyor of Orleans parish, Barthelemy Lafon, who had come to New Orleans from France in 1790, began planning the new faubourg that is now called the Lower Garden District.
Then he had a herald of arms, a physician, an apothecary, four minstrels, a keeper of his tents, an armourer and instructor of his wards, an instructor of his wardrobe of robes, a keeper of his chamber continually; he had also in his house a surveyor of York, a clerk of the greencloth. The Customs of Old England
It was the brainchild of the borough surveyor, whose nickname derived from his use of concrete both here and in the adjoining resort to the east. Times, Sunday Times
Each site acts like a surveyor's stake in triangulating the location.
Last week the 53-year-old surveyor was alone in the bush, east of Bella Coola. CNN Transcript May 17, 2008
The chain was a surveyors chain of 22 yds, two men and an umpire measuring the hit.
I do not have the expertise and for this reason I would like an independent surveyor to be appointed.
The certificates of admeasurement include the date of the precept from the surveyor general ordering the survey.
Once the surveyor had the direction, a team of axemen would be sent to hack out a path or vista through the trees.
Use a surveyor or architect to oversee and inspect the different stages of the work.
Later, he also worked as a surveyor and wine gauger.
Surveyors carried out a valuation on / of our house.
But the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is angry that some other local authorities are letting agents get away with murder.
He's a fellow of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.
On Monday, council surveyors were inspecting the building to assess the damage, which is thought to be considerable.
Call in an architect or surveyor to oversee the work.
This can be enforced through the courts, but they almost certainly will need a report from a chartered surveyor or structural engineer that identifies the risks. Times, Sunday Times
Then, while Fred Elliot was speeding on a seven miles 'tramp round the shore of the lake to the surveyors' camp to invoke the aid of the only other white men in that remote part of the country, Hugh Jervois had made his way to the Maori _kainga_. Adventures in Many Lands
No one was injured, and surveyors were brought in to assess the damage.
In 1842 a horse was bought in Australia and shipped over for the chief surveyor to use.
In addition , independent surveyor's reports of the loss or damage and the correspondence concerning liability for loss or damage are necessary.
Surveyors say the fault line is capable of generating a major earthquake once in a hundred years.
Hutchins' job was to measure it out and map it on a surveyor's plat.
Project managers, quantity surveyors and architects are following close behind. Times, Sunday Times
He and his colleagues borrowed ideas from photogrammetry, a technique used by topographers and aerial surveyors to create three-dimensional views from two-dimensional images.
You will need specialist help Architects and surveyors with experience of historic buildings are likely to have a good relationship with local planning officials. Times, Sunday Times
A chartered surveyor from Strathaven, in Lanarkshire, who owns a terraced property two doors along, said: ‘Property prices in this place are just cuckoo.’
Cut the risk before you buy by reading the listing document to understand what should be there and by using a surveyor with relevant knowledge. Times, Sunday Times
Employed by the Board of Ordnance, William Roy began mapping the Highlands in 1747, pushing a surveyor's wheel and using a simple kind of theodolite called a circumferentor. Map of a Nation: A Biography of the Ordnance Survey by Rachel Hewitt - review
Usually, a purchaser should rely upon his own inspection and his surveyor's report.
Surveyors say that one area of particular focus has been on property values with many more valuations being challenged. Times, Sunday Times
Eustace bridge, upper Leeson street, though from prolonged summer drouth and daily supply of 12 1/2 million gallons the water had fallen below the sill of the overflow weir for which reason the borough surveyor and waterworks engineer, Mr Spencer Harty, C. E., on the instructions of the waterworks committee had prohibited the use of municipal water for purposes other than those of consumption (envisaging the possibility of recourse being had to the impotable water of the Grand and Royal canals as in 1893) particularly as the South Dublin Guardians, notwithstanding their ration of 15 gallons per day per pauper supplied through a 6 inch meter, had been convicted of a wastage of 20,000 gallons per night by Ulysses
Although he was employed as a chartered surveyor after leaving school, he climbed in the Alps regularly in the prewar years. Times, Sunday Times
Should we hire a marine surveyor to inspect the boat once it's returned to us?
Probably the easiest way of determining this is to obtain a valuation in writing from a chartered surveyor.
Harrington Bannon is a firm of chartered valuations surveyors and commercial property consultants founded in 1979.
A ‘surveyor’ then calls who will identify damp as a problem and give a quote - often running up a bill of £1,500.
It was one of two instruments used to set up the principal triangulation and surveyor's grid for Great Britain-a mapping project to mark a network of fixed points across the country.
Most builders operating incentive schemes employ a bonus surveyor to measure and calculate the bonus paid to each operative.
Since 1970 he has been in private practice as a building surveyor.
(Last month, Bella Coola made national news when a forest surveyor walking through the woods alone was mauled by a bear and badly injured.) Face-to-Face With the Grizzly
Marine surveyor and owner should attendance while doing machine capability ( include testing specimens ) and ultrasonic testing.
The land surveyor worked by triangulating the plot
The grandly named "Surveyor of Highways" was in charge.
Chartered surveyors are reporting that some sellers are starting to reprice their properties to reflect the current market. Times, Sunday Times
With his sea captain's qualifications he acted in a consultancy basis as a marine surveyor and also carried out safety surveys.
He begins his analysis by simplifying and generalizing the problem, dispensing with the surveyor's vocabulary of perches and chains and bearings.
Distortion and/or stress cracks are two other hull problems that should be addressed by a marine surveyor or repairer.
It was the brainchild of the borough surveyor, whose nickname derived from his use of concrete both here and in the adjoining resort to the east. Times, Sunday Times
Residential solicitors and valuation surveyors are colluding to ensure that the current unfair and expensive system is maintained.
The secant and cosecant were not used by the early astronomers or surveyors.
Call in an architect or surveyor to oversee the work.
The editors also liked the listings of thousands of boat ramps, marine surveyors, boat shows, nautical crossword puzzles, and free greeting cards.
The Surveyor at the front rank of tax assessment may have been outgeneralled by a small but active body of higher civil servants and interested industrialists.
I would ask a fiberglass specialist at a local marina or even a surveyor to look at it.
Radiographic inspections to be carried out to the satisfaction of Owner's representative and class surveyors.
Following an on - site inspection, the surveyor prepared a written report on the property.
The flagman, supplied with metal pins or wooden stakes, marked the spot determined by the deputy surveyor and toward which the axmen and chainmen aimed.
Washington's drive and determination, essential qualities for any military commander and revolutionary leader, manifested themselves before 1775 in acquiring still other public posts: county surveyor, vestryman, and legislator.
Rocky Mountain House has more than tripled in population, and that doesn't include the countless oil and gas roustabouts, drilling maintenance crews, surveyors and the like.
In addition , independent surveyor's reports of the loss or damage and the correspondence concerning liability for loss or damage are necessary.
Make sure you take a surveyor and architect around before the sale. Times, Sunday Times
The Chairman said although it sounded funny, that sort of thing must not be countenanced, and the Surveyor was instructed to notify the police and take proceedings against any future offenders.
As in the past, the geodesists, the surveyors, and all who want to have the most-robust and precise Global Navigation Satellite System will again be denied.
We have employed architects and surveyors. Times, Sunday Times
The compulsorily home reports were introduced by the Scottish Government a year ago and contain a valuation commissioned by the seller from a surveyor, which is meant to be acceptable to both parties. Undefined
Surveyors carried out a valuation on / of our house.
It also came out that she was one of the 20 candidates "targeted" for removal by Sarah Palin, the term targeted being literal as Palin had a campaign map with bull's eyes over the targeted districts and then cross hairs over the actual candidates pictures; her campaign's later assertion on the Tammy Bruce show Monday, January 10, 2011 that these were "surveyor" symbols and that the graphic was "farmed out" and they didn't see them as "crosshairs" is so disingenuous coming from a campaign of a woman who shoots wolves from a plane using a what?... rifle, is simply beyond the pale. Charles Karel Bouley: Tucson: In the Blame Game, We All Lose
Later Surveyor missions carried analytical instrumentation to determine the chemical composition of the soil samples.
Structure, services, surveyor's marks, and post-construction graffiti are overlaid as the most recent inscriptions on the palimpsest of the building.
Surveyors say the fault line is capable of generating a major earthquake once in a hundred years.
Simply put, a marine surveyor is a technical consultant competent to inspect and evaluate recreational boats.
Our surveyor warned us that the house needed totally rebuilding.
If you are thinking about buying a sailboat, ask the surveyor if the rigging will be inspected aloft or from the deck.
A surveyor, when making a building survey for a prospective purchaser, needs to advise the client of the presence and/or risk of fungal decay in the building.
In talks with a surveyor general or a privacy official—or even the president of India, at one point—Jones would counter objections by explaining that Google got its geodata from public places and commercial vendors. In the Plex
For example, a job surveyor must know the areas where he is free to issue instructions and give guidance to the contractor.
Most builders operating incentive schemes employ a bonus surveyor to measure and calculate the bonus paid to each operative.
Chances are the person you ask will be a chartered surveyor, and therefore in no position to help. The Sun
The surveyor will therefore require a knowledge of the contracts available in order to advise his client.
Another three months passed, then the Victualling Board asked for cinder ashes from the smitheries in the dockyards at Deptford and Woolwich to mix with ground lime and ballast for repair work, but none of this seems to have worked, as in March 1813 the Victualling Board asked for the Navy Board's surveyor of buildings to make an inspection and give his opinion on the necessary repairs. Archive 2008-10-01
Surveyors, trudging barefoot through the mud, stuck flags into the soggy earth marking the city limits.
The unlisted developer's winning bid of 1.63 billion Hong Kong dollars (US$210. 1 million) for the site at 3 and 5 Ede Road in Kowloon Tong was 10% higher than the average HK$1. 48 billion forecast of eight analysts and surveyors. Chinachem Plans Luxury Apartment Project in Hong Kong
The surveyors and researchers worked, roomed, and boarded at the picturesque site along the edge of the Panama Canal.
The final chapter talks about the future of land surveying, with challenges ahead such as the possible transition to a coordinate based cadastral system and the necessity of maintaining the survey framework that already exists — plus, of course, the need for new surveyors to continue to enter the profession. My speech to the Saskatchewan Land Surveyors Association AGM
In 1990 bright emerald-green, transparent, octahedral fluorite crystals were discovered in the Kettle mine by mine surveyor Michelle Scott.
A vessel is measured by a surveyor to ascertain her tunnage, and the collector records or registers in a book her name, the port to which she belongs, her burden or tunnage, and the name of the place in which she was built, and gives to the owner or commander a certificate of such registry. The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens.
The Surveyor lunar landers followed in the late 1960s, which dramatically helped in the site selection for the Apollo landings.
Throughout all the fuss and bother, the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft has been quietly going about its work of photographing the entire planet.
The surveyor wrote to successful grant applicants touting for custom.
She hired an independent chartered surveyor to prove that the windows were draughty, but Guardian ignored the report. Times, Sunday Times
The surveyors valued the property at £15,000 and assessed it as suitable for maximum lending.
You will then need to employ a builder to put these plans into action, ideally under the eye of your engineer, surveyor or architect. Times, Sunday Times
Chartered surveyors are reporting that some sellers are starting to reprice their properties to reflect the current market. Times, Sunday Times
While scholars pondered the divine nature of light, other more humble sorts like sailors, artists and surveyors learnt to use light for practical purposes.
This angle, called the azimuth of the pole star, varies with the latitude of the observer, as will appear from Fig 2, and hence its value must be computed for different latitudes, and the surveyor must know his Scientific American Supplement, No. 360, November 25, 1882
The concept was originated by William Smith, a surveyor, in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
But in the York and Thirsk area, surveyors say purchasers are starting to negotiate over price and vendors are no longer getting away with over-optimistic pricing.
If not, instruct a chartered surveyor to inspect the roof and provide an independent opinion on its condition. Times, Sunday Times
A surveyor's report found that the smallpox isolation hospital at Winterburn was in a poor state.
Surveyors use a tachymeter to make quick calculations of the distances, bearings or elevations of distant objects.
Wallace began his career in the 1830s as a land surveyor in Wales, during one of the most turbulent eras of British history.
But Norwich Union had revalued the sum insured each year in line with the house-building index produced by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics).
The officers have shot the Milford scene with a Nikon laser surveyor, which is used to make computer generated drawings that Horn said look three-dimensional. The Milford Daily News Homepage RSS
Yet Wilkes, convinced of his cartographical abilities, refused to hire non-naval surveyors. United States Exploring Expedition
Until now, GPS has been primarily the preserve of those who know what they're doing - the surveyors, navigators, geodesists, and cartographers.

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