The phrase "a form of substitute" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing alternatives or replacements for something, indicating that the item in question serves as a substitute in some capacity.
Example: "In this recipe, applesauce can be used as a form of substitute for oil to reduce fat content."
Alternatives: "a type of replacement" or "an alternative option".
The criminality of militants and these blood relationships combines in gangs, long seen by social scientists as a form of substitute family existing on, or often well beyond, the margins of legality.
But in his last, "Truth and Truthfulness" (2002), he sought to speak plainly, and took on the post-modern, politically correct notion that truth is merely relative, particularly as it is expressed in the work of by his former colleague Richard Rorty, who argues that truth is dispensable and that its pursuit is a form of substitute religion and as such a delusion.
(A clinical officer is a form of substitute doctor with a 3 year diploma in medicine).
Begin reducing your baby's feedings a little at a time once a form of substitute feeding has been established.
The European glory nights returned to Celtic Park and provided a form of interest-substitute for the thrill-of-the-chase that was lacking at home.
He might look at the ideology of cynicism, as he did so famously in the opening chapter of The Sublime Object of Ideology, in order to demonstrate how expressions of outrage regarding NSA surveillance practices can actually serve as a form of inaction, as a substitute for meaningful political struggle.
Too often, they are used as a form of chemical restraint, as a substitute for good care and adequate staffing.
31] described the Soviet decision to resume nuclear testing as "a form of atomic blackmail, designed to substitute terror for reason".
In their willingness to substitute a form of re-creation for creation, the novels of Messrs Rufin, Garcin and Schmitt may be seen to exemplify something of a fashion in contemporary French fiction.
"A decision not to vote is a decision to usurp the Constitution, to abandon democracy and substitute a form of what this nation's founders called tyranny, that is, the imposition of the will of those in power, on the people," Mr. Romney said.
But when Roche Holding AG, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant, bought a license to make the drug, it substituted a form of star anise found in southwestern China.
