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Energy differences between frozen core and all electrons correlated.
MP2, MP3, MP4, B2PLYP, CCSD, and CCSD(T)

For BS- (boron monosulfide anion)

Energies in Hartree
Methods with standard basis sets
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000871 -0.006376 -0.014198 -0.004268 -0.015091 -0.015091 -0.015946 -0.137450 -0.137450 -0.025842 -0.008206 -0.045244
MP3=FULL         -0.014242   -0.043371          
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ