being in evidence
Example Sentences
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But I couldn't see a blamed thing but trees and grass, and a moss-covered stone wall out by the road; the Earl's bulldog not being in evidence anywhere.
From The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons Being one of the exciting episodes in the career of the famous detective Hemlock Holmes, as recorded by his friend Dr. Watson by James Francis Thierry
He did not approve of young children being in evidence, and discouraged the boy’s appearance downstairs.
From Lady Cassandra by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
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 Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt
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 Rosa Belle Holt
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 Bernard Edward Joseph Capes
