Sentence:  THE DENVER-AREA TV audience was privileged to see Mays ' four home runs , thanks to a new arrangement made by Bob Howsam that the games are not to <WSD>be</WSD> blacked out when his Bears are playing at home . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)