Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: In any case, the framework provides functionality for making navigational objects persistent.

Modifies a noun

• offender: Adrian, 22, was a persistent petty offender.

• cookie: A persistent cookie is a small text file stored on your hard drive for an extended period of time.

• pollutant: Dioxins - and dioxin-like compounds - are persistent organic pollutants produced by waste incineration and other industrial processes.

• cough: If you have a persistent cough with sputum for more than three weeks, you should contact your doctor.

• truant: Historical data can also be extracted to identify trends such as persistent truants or the effectiveness of any new school policies.

• rumor: There have been persistent rumors of a Kawasaki V-twin based on the company's custom motors.

Modifying Another Word

• unusually: That Sunday afternoon, once the unusually persistent headache had cleared, I staggered in to try the food.

• remarkably: Spate conditions have been remarkably persistent in the English lowlands; in part, this reflects unprecedented groundwater levels.

• relatively: The POI convention provides a simple means of assigning ` relatively persistent ' global identifiers within the Internet's ` http ' namespace.

• particularly: It must seem to Tony Blair that he is under a particularly persistent curse.

• very: We shall be left with a very persistent range of strange occurrences which even the MOD now shows signs of uneasily recognizing.

• so: She is the kind of person ministers dread because they are so persistent.

Infinitive complement

• get: If nothing else, I was stubborn, dogmatic and persistent to get the movie the way I wanted it.

Used with adjective complement

• remain: Flower: From the apex, medium sized to quite small, the wall thick, flower remains persistent.

• become: An unusual form of strangles is recognized which produces flu-like symptoms and often becomes persistent in a yard.

• have: Three patients ( 5 % ) had persistent, uncontrolled, local disease.

• include: Symptoms progressively restrict a person's ability to breathe and include persistent coughing, wheezing, excessive production of phlegm and ongoing shortness of breath.

• get: Patients also face a long-term risk of getting persistent swelling or ulcers in their leg.

Preposition: in

• environment: This metabolite is persistent in the environment, and its presence does not suggest recent use of DDT.