being in evidence

Example Sentences

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He did not approve of young children being in evidence, and discouraged the boy’s appearance downstairs.

From Lady Cassandra by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

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

From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.

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)

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)

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