being in evidence

Example Sentences

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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

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)

The border is geometrical, the hook design in a bracket being in evidence, and outside of this is a narrower stripe in red, white, black, and yellow.

From Rugs: Oriental and Occidental, Antique & Modern A Handbook for Ready Reference by Holt, Rosa Belle

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)