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

For BeBr2 (Beryllium bromide)

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) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ
Moller Plesset perturbation MP2=FULL -0.000586 -0.007494 -0.022655 -0.022392 -0.061166 -0.061166 -0.062363 -0.805995 -0.805995 -0.179782 -0.904577 -0.144464 -0.018034 -0.106255 -0.185853 -0.022592 -0.117494 -0.190380 -0.023873 -0.120992
B2PLYP=FULL -0.000197 -0.002287 -0.006931 -0.006593 -0.018755 -0.018755 -0.019112 -0.236671 -0.236671 -0.055294 -0.265737 -0.042932 -0.005576 -0.031908   -0.006963 -0.035171   -0.007351 -0.036187
Quadratic configuration interaction QCISD(T)=FULL         -0.059122           -0.839137   -0.016907 -0.100503   -0.021368 -0.111886   -0.022598 -0.115306
Coupled Cluster CCSD=FULL         -0.057844         -0.167694 -0.830340 -0.129705 -0.016064 -0.096996 -0.170459 -0.020318 -0.108266 -0.174778 -0.021507 -0.111654
CCSD(T)=FULL         -0.059062           -0.838795 -0.133252 -0.016873 -0.100306 -0.174773 -0.021314 -0.111673 -0.179118 -0.022541 -0.115089
STO-3G 3-21G 3-21G* 6-31G 6-31G* 6-31G** 6-31+G** 6-311G* 6-311G** 6-31G(2df,p) 6-311+G(3df,2p) TZVP cc-pVDZ cc-pVTZ cc-pVQZ aug-cc-pVDZ aug-cc-pVTZ aug-cc-pVQZ daug-cc-pVDZ daug-cc-pVTZ