The phrase 'keep them intact' is a perfectly correct and usable sentence in written English.
It means to preserve something in its original form. For example: "We must keep the documents intact so we can present them to the court."
"Keep them intact, keep them as one.
Remove the segments carefully to keep them intact and drop them into a bowl.
For is there not a multitude of houses in England, and has not someone to keep them intact?
In addition to the 125th Street Sheffield site, it owns the Borden one, and says it plans to keep them intact.
In this anachronistic environment, no wonder reputations are carefully burnished, and everyone in the system is incentivized to keep them intact.
The legislation does not differentiate between hostile or friendly deals, nor between deals that break up banks or keep them intact.
Instead of enucleating them, they kept them intact and inserted the adult cell's nucleus alongside the original one.
These sugar "microspheres" are then suspended in a non-water-containing liquid, which keeps them intact until they are injected into the body.
The impact of LSD was to diminish connections within each of these networks, relaxing the bonds that kept them intact and distinct, while increasing the cross-talk among them.
"So the first step is to pay the price of the sins of the past, but to do so in a way that holds on to our citizenry and keeps them intact".
Upon the death of William H. Campbell, his executors, for the purpose of paying the annuity bequeathed by him to his sister, set apart the aforesaid United States bonds, of the par value of $13,000, and kept them intact during the life of the annuitant.
