21.   The investigators are now wrestling with the question of whether the mailing was an actual warning or part of an elaborate scheme dreamed up to claim a reward.

22.   The men developed an elaborate scheme that involved fictitious companies and billing to cover the thefts, said US Attorney Donald K. Stern.

23.   These officers described elaborate schemes to place assets in the names of relatives to thwart tax collection and, presumably, hide money from creditors.

24.   They are little more than data entries in elaborate schemes to cut costs and bolster profits as radically as possible.

25.   They tell of an elaborate scheme to interfere in the American political system.

26.   This sets up an elaborate scheme, in which allegiances keep changing as Jackie tries to revise the plan and get away with the money.

27.   We got an elaborate regulatory scheme out of the White House.

28.   Will Smith, as a hotshot Marine pilot, and Jeff Goldblum, as a computer whiz, have just concocted an elaborate scheme.

29.   Yet in the same breath, it has unveiled an elaborate scheme for an expansion that it hopes will be financed with money from the National Lottery.

30.   A Mandela spokesman admitted an elaborate scheme was set up to throw the press off track.