The phrase "a form of soft" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to describe a type or category of something that is soft, but it needs additional context to be meaningful.
Example: "Cotton is a form of soft fabric that is often used in clothing."
Alternatives: "a type of soft" or "a variety of soft".
Finally, exporting programmes is a form of soft power.
We'll also need to use nature itself as a form of "soft" infrastructure.
Michelle Obama and her two daughters are currently on a visit to China that is billed as a form of "soft diplomacy" by the White House.
If 19th-century Mormon secrecy was a matter of survival, 20th-century Mormon reticence was a form of soft secrecy, designed to avoid soft bigotry.
Former Institute of Public Affairs fellow Tim Wilson, now a Human Rights Commissioner, accused the university of engaging in a form of "soft censorship".
The Korean government has promoted hallyu, using it as a form of "soft power," by making South Korea the Hollywood of Asia.
Some journalists viewed the snap as a desperate attempt to beat Nigel Farage at his own game, a form of soft-sell racism and xenophobia.
Finding he could do this successfully, he began to practise using the same method to bowl in a form of soft-ball cricket and then in the cricket nets with a hard ball, but did not at the time take his discovery seriously.
In Spain, pay guidelines based on inflation forecasts in the cross-sectoral agreements since 2002 in combination with the wage revision clauses in sectoral agreements which adjust wages to observed inflation operate as a form of 'soft' or 'non-automatic' indexation.
Bergen reflected on how "Americanized" jihad had become, citing a reviewer who called jihad "a form of American soft power".
The system seemed to offer him discounts for repeat custom: working on a second development in the same town near Moscow, he found that the bribes were lower (though he was also being leaned on to contribute to local schools, a common form of soft extortion).
