being in evidence

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

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

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

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

From The Mesa Trail by H. Bedford-Jones

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

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