Sentence:  Today however , the `` outsider '' is likely to have professional qualifications of the highest order ( otherwise the college would not <WSD>be</WSD> interested in hiring him ) and to be acclimatized to the democratic processes of the secular or state university . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)