being in evidence

Example Sentences

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The Gates family not being in evidence, she wrote a hasty note, telling Mud-Cat where she had seen a houseboat resembling the one he had lost.

From The Vanishing Houseboat by Wirt, Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine)

In like manner, Jane's female associates were chary about being in evidence.

From The Cottage of Delight A Novel by Harben, Will N. (William Nathaniel)

Mountain tops and forests were bellowing without anyone's being in evidence.

From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster

There had been some sort of accident, yet there was no human being in evidence.

From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.

But probably, I thought, it is quite simple of solution, and the fact of the repairers and the landlord being in evidence at one time, a natural coincidence.

From At a Winter's Fire by Capes, Bernard Edward Joseph