The phrase 'the form of a contract' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it in many different contexts. For example, you could say, "We have to fill out the form of a contract in order to finalize the deal."
It also has a nice little earner in the form of a contract with the American navy.
"Frequently, the material terms of the option are in the form of a contract of sale attached to the lease as a rider," Mr. Graff said.
Because Mr. Libeskind was under contract with the development corporation for the design competition, the approval of a new agreement for work on the memorial could take the form of a contract extension, rebuilding officials said.
A treaty often takes the form of a contract, but it may be a joint declaration or an exchange of notes (as in the case of the Rush-Bagot Agreement between the United States and Great Britain in 1817 for mutual disarmament on the Great Lakes).
The implementation action plan acted in the form of a contract among all LCT members and outlined procedures for data utilization to track progress toward goals and goal steps.
The assistance may take the form of a contract between the employer and the university or a full or partial tuition reimbursement plan between the employer and the employee.
But a windfall came in the form of a royalty contract with Google, which, like the other search companies, is always competing for better placement on browsers.
However the pressures here are many and varied and might come just as often in the form of a recording contract as a photograph on the internet.
As we've discussed in past issues of Negotiation, parties that reach different risk estimates can "bet" on these differences in the form of a contingent contract.
All these are regularly discussed and settled by a sort of verbal agreement, known among the peasantry by the name of "riad". In ancient Russia when agreements of this kind were entered into even by the higher classes, the "riad" was always put down in the form of a written contract, and this is still occasionally done in the northern Governments of Russia, especially in that of Archangel.
So it's only appropriate that the George Soros-funded grantmaking network is bringing some democracy to its own workplace, in the form of a union contract for its workers.
