9.31 'such' as an adjective

'Such' can be an adjective referring back to something that has already been mentioned.

• To meet the demand there are now many new agencies providing mainly female cooks to cater for the boardrooms. One such agency, M and N, has about a hundred upper class girls on its books.
• Not only did he fail to admit the impropriety of his behaviour, he actually pretended that he hadn't done any such thing.
• Mr Bell's clubs were privately owned. Like most such clubs everywhere, they were organizations of congenial people who shared a certain interest.
• I hated the big formal dances and felt very awkward and out of place at the one or two such events I attended.

9.32

'Such' is also sometimes used as a headword after 'one' and 'many' in formal usage.

• So many advocates of freedom have not got their feet on the ground. One such protested to me recently because I shouted sternly at a problem boy of seven.
• It is not surprising that people are prepared to envisage radical alternatives. Many such have been proposed in the last few years.