Sentence examples for off the shortlist from inspiring English sources

Mexican city Guadalajara and Rotterdam in the Netherlands were left off the shortlist because of financial issues.

Perhaps it's also the kind of thinking that kept "Skippy Dies" off the shortlist, which was announced this week.

TBWA, J Walter Thompson and Circus were kicked off the shortlist at an earlier stage of the review.

Nicola Barker's inclusion will provide compensation for having been left off the shortlist for this year's Orange prize.

Here they are, with a few other folky fall favorites by artists it pained me to leave off the shortlist, Bert Jansch and Nic Jones.

He also seemed hurt by the idea he had launched his broadside against the judges because his own book, The Islanders, had been left off the shortlist.

Many of the world's biggest literary guns had already been seen off when the shortlist of eight was announced in April.

We had 19 books on the longlist and no-one felt terribly bad about what was left off and even on the shortlist of six, it was difficult but not impossible.

A petition calling for Fury to be taken off the SPOTY shortlist over these remarks has now amassed over 122,000 signatures.

The band's frontman claims that mbv, their first album in 22 years, was left off the Mercury shortlist because the group bypassed corporate powers such as Apple, Amazon and record labels.

Novelist Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (Jonathan Cape) - inexplicably left off the Booker shortlist - not only has a quote from Holmes in the title but also pulls off the difficult feat of providing a touching and very funny account of a disabled boy living in Swindon.