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

For BeO+ (Beryllium monoxide cation)

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) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ cc-pV(T+d)Z
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000373 -0.002368 -0.002368 -0.001680 -0.006348 -0.006348 -0.006733 -0.033123 -0.033123 -0.011302 -0.030019 -0.002849 -0.019472 -0.050453 -0.004260 -0.025085 -0.051391 -0.019472
MP3=FULL         -0.006409   -0.009437                      
MP4=FULL   -0.002320     -0.006466       -0.035163     -0.002709 -0.019929   -0.004133 -0.026245    
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.006396           -0.032087 -0.002668 -0.019747 -0.053203 -0.004134 -0.026113 -0.054220  
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.006458           -0.032202 -0.002704 -0.019939 -0.053605 -0.004134 -0.026275 -0.054617  
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ cc-pV(T+d)Z