Modifies a noun

• sort: The idea that debt might result from moral failings features prominently in Margaret Hunt's study of ' the middling sort ' .

• rank: The distribution of funeral doles was becoming more common among the middling ranks of society in the sixteenth century.

• class: The rich and the aspiring middling classes of eighteenth century Britain were able to buy a larger choice of consumer goods than ever before.

• quality: The brown and middling qualities of West Indian sugar comprised fully three fourths of the entire import into the country.

• par: A variety of squeeze in a. Olson on a do with directv a middling par.

• one: Some agents valued much higher than others ( almost 8 % spread ), so went with one of the middling ones.