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For someone steeped in drama – Spooks, State of Play, Life on Mars, Bleak House – the Top Gear pitch was a novel experience, albeit a successful one, as the show is now in its fifth series on History.

"Will kids with the ability to play on Sunday be interested in my school?" And that may be the biggest reason the option remains a niche offense, albeit a successful one.

That arm's-length arrangement clearly has to end, but how will the highly paid employees react to being told what to do by a mere retail banker, albeit a successful one from the other side of Barclays?

Manchester United are between managers at the moment and Miguel Herrera has only been in charge of Mexico a short time, albeit a successful one, but Hernández takes a pragmatic view of whoever happens to be in charge.

But the reward is to get back into one of the world's largest markets and gain the scale that will promote Fiat from a smallish European firm (albeit with a successful business in South America) to the ranks of global carmakers.

Ian Godden, chairman of aerospace, defence and security trade organisation ADS, said: "We have long had a successful, albeit relatively unknown, space industry, and we are encouraged that the sector is receiving deserved recognition through this promise of future Governmental support.

Indeed, the Annapolis pathway to victory is a successful, albeit labor-intensive, model Illinois can replicate.

The ship also led a successful, albeit minor, operation against British shipping in the North Sea in December 1917.

As noted above the Global Fund is a successful, albeit flawed, embodiment of shared responsibility.

There simply isn't the space to detail the yawning chasm between MGM's fabled boy genius and his bogbrush-haired early-21st-century simulacrum – but suffice to say it spans everything from artistic sensibility and a desire to elevate the public taste, not debase it, to the possession of more than one trick (albeit a monstrously successful one).

The danger of summoning the full "non-political" panoply of the state to bid farewell to a Prime Minister – albeit a hugely successful one who certainly changed Britain as only Clement Attlee did in her lifetime – is that it suggests a Conservative prime minister has a place in history "beyond politics".