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Bali is one of the Indonesian islands which is visited by many tourists.
Bali is one of the Indonesian islands which are visited by many tourists.
Bingley makes a good point here. In the original example about the women who likes football, in the one case we are saying that all the women like football, in the other case we are only saying that the one woman likes football; about the others we are making no such overt claim. They are damned only by implication.
Of course these fine distinctions are lost because of the lax standards of present day grammar. It's not unlike our former ability to distinguish meanings between she likes him better than me and she likes him better than I. If we feel we have to make those distinctions we must be more explicit in voicing them.
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