The phrase "about to overlook" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when indicating that someone is on the verge of missing or failing to notice something important.
Example: "I was about to overlook the crucial details in the report, but I caught them just in time."
Alternatives: "on the brink of missing" or "nearly ignoring".
Shawn's strategy is to disenchant himself about himself; he is hilarious about our ability to overlook the hornswoggling behind a life of privilege.
Todd Akin is being shunned by his peers because he said out loud what the rest of them know and don't want the average "I don't care about party" voter to overlook.
Television floods us with sleazy factoids about inconsequential events and tends to overlook stories that are about unfamiliar places with unpronounceable names.
ATLANTA HAWKS Al Horford is one of the best players in the league, Jeff Teague might be the best point guard that gets left off the "best point guard" conversation and now the Hawks have Paul Milsap, who somehow leaves Utah to a situation which is about as equally easy to overlook.
That's kind of a big deal (or "limitation," as researchers like to call it), and one that every other news story about the study seems to overlook.
After commiserating with him about the Academy's decision to overlook both he and Michael B. Jordan for Oscar nominations, I asked him about Blackout for Human Rights, the relationship between art and politics, and his own views on Martin Luther King's legacy.
An artist truly passionate about success can't afford to overlook the importance of failure.
Tired of escalating rebel violence, Colombians were willing to overlook concerns about the possibility of a more violent conflict in accepting Mr. Uribe's message.
First and most important is that while most people want more controls, it is easy to overlook concern about gun owner rights.
