'might be absent' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are unsure if something will happen or not. For example: "He told me he might be absent from work tomorrow due to illness."
Some prosecutors are calling experts to the witness stand simply to explain to juries why forensic evidence might be absent.
Either way, they lend the place a seriousness of purpose that might be absent if beginners were its only clientele.
"I was half hoping this student might be absent, so I could teach the topic without her there".
But to keep those second-home fires burning, especially given that owners might be absent for months at a time, safety and maintenance steps need to be taken.
With no formal agreement on hours or responsibilities, Emerence might be absent for days, only to appear late at night and then scrub the kitchen or pantry till dawn, or render the bathroom out of bounds for a day and a half because she has rugs soaking in the tub.
Researchers at Harvard and elsewhere figured that a natural substance known as BMP4, which plays a central role in the development of mouse teeth, might be absent in birds, and that suppression of the gene that makes it might be the reason modern day birds do not have teeth.
The 227-page plan estimates that a third of the population could become infected, two million people could die, 40percentt of employees might be absent from work during the height of the outbreak, and $600 billion in income could be lost nationwide.
Concern about that poor ratio is readily offset by the small matter of history; for a spell it looked like Fletcher might be absent from the scene permanently, just as another Scottish multimillion-pound player, Duncan Ferguson, was years before him.
Though scripted by British writer Steven Knight (Dirty Pretty Things), it is unmistakably a David Cronenberg film, and while the body horror, blood and viscera of those early-to-mid-period films (Videodrome, The Fly, Dead Ringers) might be absent here (though tattooed flesh plays a large part), his feeling for extreme violence, and for the confluence of sexuality and obsession, remains strong.
It might be absent in long-standing cases [10].
For one thing I might be absent minded and thinking about philosophy.
