Converse of object

• announce: I look forward to announcing the shortlist for the Prime Minister's award for Better Public Building later this summer.

• compile: Councilors are compiling a shortlist of famous figures who they feel deserve a place in Edinburgh's history books.

• select: Young reviewers competed for places on the panel to choose the winners from a shortlist selected by adults.

• beat: Falmouth Gallery beat a shortlist of four other British Art Galleries.

• reach: We will then inform the writers who have reached the shortlist by the 10th of July 2006.

• choose: These sophisticated online tools offer great value to intending purchasers seeking to choose an appropriate shortlist of suppliers.

Adjective modifier

• all-women: The Labor Party has apologized for imposing a all-women shortlist on Blaenau Gwent at the General Election.

• all-woman: The all-woman shortlist, in short, has been a crucial weapon in the fight to secure more women MPs representing Welsh seats.

• provisional: All have played their part in helping us draw up our provisional shortlist.

• final: CPS was in the final shortlist of two, along with NCP.

Modifies a noun

• candidate: It will not be considered alongside your application when we shortlist candidates.

Noun used with modifier

• view: To view the vehicles in your shortlist, simply click view shortlist.

• prise: Museum prize shortlist unveiled BBC Birmingham, UK - .. .

Preposition: of

• finalist: An independent judging panel met in July to agree a shortlist of three finalists per category.

• bidder: A shortlist of bidders will be drawn up following close of bidding at midnight every Sunday.

• contender: A shortlist of six contenders also included boxer Lennox Lewis, tennis player Tim Henman and world triple jump champion Jonathan Edwards.

• candidate: We can identify a shortlist of candidates, using your vacancy criteria.

• nomination: ENTRY INFORMATION All nominations will be considered and a shortlist of 3 nominations per category will be decided.

• applicant: A shortlist of applicants may be invited for interview.

Preposition: for

• award: Roehampton graduate Yvonne Wake, reached the shortlist for a prestigious national nutrition award in recognition of her project on childhood obesity.