Example sentences of "he [be] [vb pp] surveyor " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1793 he was appointed surveyor to the Mint , but was dismissed in 1794 for inattention to duty . |
| 2 | From 1823 onwards he built over twenty in the region , a number of them for the commissioners for building new churches established under the Million Pound Act , and in 1829 he was appointed surveyor to York Minster . |
| 3 | He was appointed surveyor to the Turnpike Trustees of the London to Brighton Roads ( 1818 ) and was responsible for the construction of a tunnel ( 1823 ) and suspension bridge in Reigate . |
| 4 | Knighted by the queen in the following year , he was appointed surveyor of Crown lands in Devon for life , and sat for local constituencies in the next seven Parliaments . |
| 5 | His involvement with bridge building started in 1767 , when he was appointed surveyor to direct the widening of the English bridge in Shrewsbury to a design by Robert Mylne [ q.v. ] and then , when that project was abandoned , submitted a design for the new bridge which was rejected in favour of that by John Gwynn [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | He was appointed surveyor of excise for the city of Dublin in 1809 and in the following year was transferred to county Donegal , where he was put in charge of operations against illicit distilling . |