The phrase "about to utter a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when indicating that someone is on the verge of speaking or expressing something.
Example: "He was about to utter a warning when the lights suddenly went out."
Alternatives: "on the brink of saying a" or "ready to express a".
The head of a woman scrutinizing the viewer, her eyes full of shining intelligence and her lips half open as if about to utter an ironical repartee, is on its own worth a visit to the show.
"TThis is an extraordinary sentence I am about to utter," says astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson in a voice charged with significance.
Or maybe she was just too damn exhausted by your loud incessant ranting and constant complaining about your life to utter a single word.
Once an aspiring concert pianist, he has enormous hands, which he uses to punctuate his speech and, occasionally, to cover his face, as though particularly struck by the words he is about to utter.
By the time it was Mr. Litvinoff's turn to read, he said afterward, he was keenly aware that the target of the corrosive lines he was about to utter was sitting in the audience.
Hastings deplored that the British government "has not uttered, and apparently does not plan to utter, a word about the virtue of Britain's cause [in 1914], or the blame that chiefly attaches to Germany for the catastrophe that overtook Europe".
The two Kims are supposed to have agreed not to utter a word about it until August.
And still, nobody in football authority dares to utter a word about whether any of this brings the people's game into disrepute.
The government had to apologise when Engin Ceber, a left-wing activist, was tortured and beaten to death by security forces recently in an Istanbul prison.AKP leaders, who narrowly escaped a constitutional court ban in July, have yet to utter a word about a similar closure case that is pending against the DTP on the ground that it is propagating separatism.
He has yet to utter a single word about his electoral programme.
