Sentence:  All over the country , belly clubs have never <WSD>been</WSD> bigger , especially in Detroit , Boston and Chicago , and even in small towns ; one of the best dancers , a Turkish girl named Semra , works at a roadhouse outside Bristol , Conn. . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)