the organziations has became looking for foothold vs the organizations have become looking for a foothold

Some examples from the web:

• People are looking for work, businesses are looking for markets, consumers are looking for reliability, Greece is looking for stability and Europe is looking for its role in the world.
• your hair has became so thin.
• - Just looking for my phone.
• An old soldier looking for somewhere warm.
• Just looking for a DSS directory.
• Just looking for a little vacation.
• She came by once looking for childhood memories.
• NTSB's still looking for bodies.
• 1.5 looking for $2 million.
• Spent the day looking for Sutton.
• Which is why I'm looking for Mr Carson.
• I am looking for Edgar Nicolas or Dufaure.
• I do not know what you're looking for.
• Just looking for my stoner lab partner.
• Thieves looking for something to steal.
• Volcazar is looking for power throughout Metalonia.
• Conlon's looking for an armbar.
• Should be looking for weakness And destroy...
• Ada Chapel looking for Officer Lopez's room.
• Better start looking for casings or slugs.

Some examples from the web:

• You've been looking for a foothold into social networking for years.
• Criminals get through traditional border controls because their organizations have become far more international than the police.
• They're looking for the head of the organization.
• No problem Your first time I sat and I am looking for someone to give the organization of work
• Cartel is trying to establish a foothold in Miami.
• For the world to see what happens when terrorism takes a foothold.
• Could have been trying to get a foothold in Sudan.
• Could have been trying to get a foothold in Sudan.
• Anywhere it's tried to get a foothold.
• Let these crooks get a foothold, they'll never let go.
• I could never get a foothold.
• She desires a foothold in France.
• I should keep a foothold in both worlds.
• Now the Communists have established a foothold in outer space.
• These creatures regain a foothold by exploiting human weakness.
• For Wada, this means a foothold in Tokyo.
• It took me five years to get a foothold here.
• We get a foothold in Nevada.
• No names, not even a foothold.
• Not great, but it's a foothold.