Example sentences of "of [v-ing] to defraud [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 THE FATHER of a former Miss Scotland beauty queen was jailed for 18 months yesterday after being convicted of conspiring to defraud an insurance company and setting fire to his partly-completed house in Argyll .
2 Mr Hatton and Mr Monk had denied the two charges of conspiring to defraud the council .
3 The news came four days after Derek Hatton , the 45-year-old former Labour deputy leader of Liverpool city council , was cleared of charges of conspiring to defraud the council over two car park sites in the city .
4 Last month a jury at Oban Sheriff Court found Iain Swan Ferguson , 50 , of 2e Scalpay Terrace , James Smillie , 34 , of 28e McCaig Road , both Oban , and Frederick Vennard , 45 , of 11 Lorn Road , Dunbeg , guilty of conspiring to defraud the Sun Alliance Insurance Company by setting fire to Ferguson 's partly-built bungalow at Taynuilt .
5 Lou Macari is accused of conspiring to defraud the taxman out of hundreds of thousands of pounds by paying Swindon Town players under-the-counter cash bonuses.Already a succession of Swindon players , past and present have told the court about tax-free payments , and today was no different .
6 FORMER Liverpool City Council deputy leader Derek Hatton and two other people were yesterday formally acquitted of one charge of conspiring to defraud the city council .
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