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 Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
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
There had been some sort of accident, yet there was no human being in evidence.
From The Mesa Trail by H. Bedford-Jones
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
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
