Sentence:  Also noted <WSD>are</WSD> the marriages of Elizabeth Browning , daughter of the George L. Brownings , to Austin C. Smith Jr. ; Cynthia Flower , daughter of the Ludlow Flowers Jr. , to Todd Huntington , son of the David Huntingtons . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)