You cannot rent a car without a driver's license.
If you have no right to be here, you cannot rent a flat or a house.
Companies that lose business — fishermen who cannot fish, or hotel owners who cannot rent out rooms — can seek damages.
Generally speaking, you cannot rent intangibles — copyrights, reputations, trade secrets, memories, honesty, deliciousness, and so forth — but there are exceptions.
You cannot rent education, but there are some enticing semester-long rental deals on textbooks, a welcome gesture, since last year college students, on average, spent $1,122 on books.
But he cannot rent them to the highest bidders -- banks, brokerage firms and the like -- because of a zoning ordinance passed by the borough council last December.
Others argue that they cannot rent to housing benefit claimants even it they wanted to, because of conditions attached to insurance policies or mortages.
Mr. Hayashi described a "vicious circle" that often sends older people back to prison: Once outside, they cannot find work; without work or a guarantor, they cannot rent an apartment.
But it's a mistake to assume that in the UK you cannot rent if all you want is security of tenure and a home that you can make your own.
Shared owners who want to move out temporarily, perhaps because of changes in their job or personal life, often find they cannot rent their property under the terms of their lease.
